diff --git a/source/dub/commandline.d b/source/dub/commandline.d
index 0269f9c..9784133 100644
--- a/source/dub/commandline.d
+++ b/source/dub/commandline.d
@@ -714,7 +714,6 @@
 		auto pack = dub.packageManager.getFirstPackage(package_name);
 		enforce(pack, "Failed to find a package named '"~package_name~"' locally.");
 		logInfo("Building package %s in %s", pack.name, pack.path.toNativeString());
-		dub.rootPath = pack.path;
 		dub.loadPackage(pack);
 		return true;
 	}
diff --git a/test/issue1556-fetch-and-build-pkgs/.no_build b/test/issue1556-fetch-and-build-pkgs/.no_build
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/issue1556-fetch-and-build-pkgs/.no_build
diff --git a/test/issue1556-fetch-and-build-pkgs/dependency-package-1.0.0.zip b/test/issue1556-fetch-and-build-pkgs/dependency-package-1.0.0.zip
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b4aa2e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/issue1556-fetch-and-build-pkgs/dependency-package-1.0.0.zip
Binary files differ
diff --git a/test/issue1556-fetch-and-build-pkgs/main-package-1.0.0.zip b/test/issue1556-fetch-and-build-pkgs/main-package-1.0.0.zip
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..87e945c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/issue1556-fetch-and-build-pkgs/main-package-1.0.0.zip
Binary files differ
diff --git a/test/issue1556-fetch-and-build.sh b/test/issue1556-fetch-and-build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..9e2fec4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/issue1556-fetch-and-build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+DIR=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")
+
+. "$DIR"/common.sh
+
+dub remove main-package --non-interactive --version=* 2>/dev/null || true
+dub remove dependency-package --non-interactive --version=* 2>/dev/null || true
+
+
+echo "Trying to fetch fs-sdl-dubpackage"
+"$DUB" --cache=local fetch main-package --skip-registry=all --registry=file://"$DIR"/issue1556-fetch-and-build-pkgs
+
+echo "Trying to build it (should fetch dependency-package)"
+"$DUB" --cache=local build main-package --skip-registry=all --registry=file://"$DIR"/issue1556-fetch-and-build-pkgs
+