diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 0c5d14687d3..140c036a779 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -261,6 +261,10 @@ jobs:
       - run: make coverage-report-html
       - store_artifacts: *store_cover_db
       - run: make coverage-report-codecov
+      - run:
+          # https://github.com/codecov/codecov-circleci-orb/issues/157
+          name: codecov gpg workaround for gpg 2.4 as included in Leap 15.6
+          command: mkdir -p ~/.gnupg
       - codecov/upload:
           file: cover_db/codecov.json
           cli_args: -v