diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 174d28a..56b6ea8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 # Copyright 2006-2007 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
 # $Header: $
 
+  14 Mar 2007; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> genkernel.conf:
+  Change the default CACHE_DIR from /usr/share/genkernel/pkg/%%ARCH%% to
+  /var/cache/genkernel/%%ARCH%% for bug #148253.
+
   13 Mar 2007; Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org> alpha/modules_load,
   ia64/modules_load, um/modules_load, x86/modules_load, x86_64/modules_load,
   xen0/modules_load, xenU/modules_load:
diff --git a/genkernel.conf b/genkernel.conf
index 13787b4..ab9480d 100755
--- a/genkernel.conf
+++ b/genkernel.conf
@@ -55,10 +55,9 @@ USECOLOR="yes"
 GK_SHARE="/usr/share/genkernel"
 
 # Location of helper-scripts
-#GK_BIN="${GK_SHARE}/bin"
 GK_BIN="${GK_SHARE}"
 # Location of the default cache
-CACHE_DIR="${GK_SHARE}/pkg/%%ARCH%%"
+CACHE_DIR="/var/cache/genkernel/%%ARCH%%"
 # Log output file
 DEBUGFILE="/var/log/genkernel.log"
 # Debug Level
@@ -66,7 +65,8 @@ DEBUGLEVEL=1
 
 # Default location of kernel source
 DEFAULT_KERNEL_SOURCE="/usr/src/linux"
-# Default kernel config (only use to override using %%ARCH%%/kernel-config-${VER}.${PAT} !)
+# Default kernel config (only use to override using
+# %%ARCH%%/kernel-config-${VER}.${PAT} !)
 # DEFAULT_KERNEL_CONFIG="${GK_SHARE}/%%ARCH%%/kernel-config"
 
 # Configuration file for busybox