diff --git a/srcpkgs/xbps/patches/0003-xbps-create-set-root-root-if-e-gu-id-st.st_e-gu-id-i.patch b/srcpkgs/xbps/patches/0003-xbps-create-set-root-root-if-e-gu-id-st.st_e-gu-id-i.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..64a4d9bcd9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/xbps/patches/0003-xbps-create-set-root-root-if-e-gu-id-st.st_e-gu-id-i.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+From 7491c0e5847b5b4ccca5369442ae394e34ed6cb1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>
+Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:31:15 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] xbps-create: set root:root if e[gu]id == st.st_e[gu]id in
+ package files.
+
+The rational is that packages should have proper perms to be installed
+globally in a system as root, and fakeroot is useless when generating
+packages with xbps-create when it's statically build.
+---
+ NEWS                   | 4 ++++
+ bin/xbps-create/main.c | 4 ++++
+ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/bin/xbps-create/main.c b/bin/xbps-create/main.c
+index 913f63b..fad76fd 100644
+--- bin/xbps-create/main.c
++++ bin/xbps-create/main.c
+@@ -431,6 +431,10 @@ process_entry_file(struct archive *ar,
+ 	archive_entry_set_pathname(entry, xe->file);
+ 	archive_entry_copy_stat(entry, &st);
+ 	archive_entry_copy_sourcepath(entry, p);
++	if (st.st_uid == geteuid())
++		archive_entry_set_uname(entry, "root");
++	if (st.st_gid == getegid())
++		archive_entry_set_gname(entry, "root");
+ 
+ 	if (S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
+ 		len = readlink(p, buf, sizeof(buf));
+-- 
+1.8.1.3
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xbps/template b/srcpkgs/xbps/template
index 550e8583dc7..67a741db380 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/xbps/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/xbps/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'xbps'
 pkgname=xbps
 version=0.21
-revision=3
+revision=4
 build_style=configure
 configure_args="--prefix=/ --exec-prefix=/usr --sbindir=/usr/sbin
  --enable-static --enable-debug --enable-tests"