diff --git a/packages/mlocate/build.sh b/packages/mlocate/build.sh
index cca455391..a62fcba5c 100644
--- a/packages/mlocate/build.sh
+++ b/packages/mlocate/build.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2.0"
 # like in '*.deb'.
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libandroid-support"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=0.26
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=3
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=4
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://releases.pagure.org/mlocate/mlocate-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=3063df79fe198fb9618e180c54baf3105b33d88fe602ff2d8570aaf944f1263e
 
diff --git a/packages/mlocate/no_getid.patch b/packages/mlocate/no_getid.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..64899f5e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/mlocate/no_getid.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- ../locate.c.orig
++++ ./src/locate.c
+@@ -945,8 +945,10 @@
+ static void
+ drop_setgid (void)
+ {
++#if !defined(__ANDROID__)
+   if (setgid (getgid ()) != 0)
+     error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, _("can not drop privileges"));
++#endif
+ }
+ 
+ /* Handle a conf_dbpath ENTRY, drop privileges when they are no longer