diff --git a/sdk/build-github.sh b/sdk/build-github.sh
index 9f1e07031..55e56cfd1 100755
--- a/sdk/build-github.sh
+++ b/sdk/build-github.sh
@@ -80,6 +80,18 @@ copy_images() {
 	find "${1}" -type f -not -name MD5SUMS -print0 | xargs -r -0 md5sum | sed -e "s,${1}/,,g" | sort -k2,2 > "${1}"/MD5SUMS
 }
 
+#
+# Pre-fetch all the source packages (with a retries mechanism)
+#
+fetch_all() {
+	local FETCH_LOG="fetch.log"
+	for _ in $(seq 1 3); do
+		bitbake --runall=fetch "${1}" 2>&1 | tee "${FETCH_LOG}"
+		grep -qs 'Summary.*ERROR' "${FETCH_LOG}" || break
+	done
+	rm -f "${FETCH_LOG}"
+}
+
 #
 # In the buildserver we share the state-cache for all the different platforms
 # we build in a jenkins job. This may cause problems with some packages that
@@ -224,6 +236,7 @@ for platform in ${DY_PLATFORMS}; do
 			} >> conf/local.conf
 			for target in ${platform_targets:?}; do
 				printf "\n[INFO] Building the %s target.\n" "${target}"
+				time fetch_all "${target}"
 				# shellcheck disable=SC2046
 				time bitbake "${target}" $(swu_recipe_name "${target}")
 				# Build the toolchain for DEY images