diff --git a/scripts/bin/update-whatprovides-db b/scripts/bin/update-whatprovides-db
index c8dd21bff..a542b9eff 100755
--- a/scripts/bin/update-whatprovides-db
+++ b/scripts/bin/update-whatprovides-db
@@ -3,19 +3,18 @@
 ## Script that generates or updates a Whatprovides
 ## database for Termux.
 ##
-## Copy of https://github.com/termux/whatprovides/blob/9afbbb72de1d89aae835d5581cef09741ff3fd10/update-whatprovides-db.sh
+## Copy of https://github.com/termux/whatprovides/blob/96a9fd100a84af1bf2fd3fbeedbaab082381f5e8/update-whatprovides-db.sh
 ## but edited for special use in termux-packages.
 ##
 
 set -e -u
 
-: "${TERMUX_PREFIX:="/data/data/com.termux/files/usr"}"
 DEBS_DIR_PATH=$(realpath "$(dirname "$0")/../../debs")
 
 list_files() {
-	dpkg-deb -c "${1}" | grep -o "${TERMUX_PREFIX//./\\.}/.\+" \
-		| sed -E 's@(.*) ->..*@\1@g;s@/$@@g' \
-		| xargs -rd\\n realpath -sm --relative-base="$TERMUX_PREFIX" --
+	dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile "${1}" | tar -t | cut -b2- \
+		| xargs -rd\\n realpath -sm --relative-base="/data/data/com.termux/files/usr" -- \
+		| grep -vEx '[./]|/data(/data(/com\.termux(/files)?)?)?'
 }
 
 write_sql_script() {