diff --git a/science/py-netCDF4/Makefile b/science/py-netCDF4/Makefile
index 58d11fe45736..20cc8ef22843 100644
--- a/science/py-netCDF4/Makefile
+++ b/science/py-netCDF4/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #
 
 PORTNAME=	netCDF4
-PORTVERSION=	0.9.7
+PORTVERSION=	0.9.8
 CATEGORIES=	science python
 MASTER_SITES=	http://netcdf4-python.googlecode.com/files/ \
 		CHEESESHOP
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ MAINTAINER=	wen@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Python Interface to the NetCDF Library(versions 3 and 4)
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_SITELIBDIR}/numpy:${PORTSDIR}/math/py-numpy
-RUN_DEPENDS=	${BUILD_DEPENDS}
+RUN_DEPENDS:=	${BUILD_DEPENDS}
 LIB_DEPENDS=	hdf5.7:${PORTSDIR}/science/hdf5-18 \
 		netcdf.7:${PORTSDIR}/science/netcdf4
 
diff --git a/science/py-netCDF4/distinfo b/science/py-netCDF4/distinfo
index 290f87ab93ac..94e4fd5d5e51 100644
--- a/science/py-netCDF4/distinfo
+++ b/science/py-netCDF4/distinfo
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-SHA256 (netCDF4-0.9.7.tar.gz) = 995a7ca1f26797ff80d0b0ae663ae86be04ef8c2c335f5cfe9a35d92abc3f203
-SIZE (netCDF4-0.9.7.tar.gz) = 446523
+SHA256 (netCDF4-0.9.8.tar.gz) = 541764cd2e8abfaa0cb50551d3ca9c44f3f8295b4d8518c76f0c65fad4c0b398
+SIZE (netCDF4-0.9.8.tar.gz) = 447359