diff --git a/packages/influxdb/build.sh b/packages/influxdb/build.sh
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+TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.influxdata.com/
+TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="An open source time series database with no external dependencies"
+TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="MIT"
+TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
+# It cannot be simply updated to the 2.0 series, for which the build system is
+# pretty much different from that for 1.x.
+_GIT_BRANCH=1.8
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_GIT_BRANCH}.10
+_COMMIT=688e697c51fd5353725da078555adbeff0363d01
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb/archive/refs/tags/v${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=4f53c61f548bab7cb805af0d02586263d9a348dc18baf90efb142b029e2e7097
+TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=true
+_GO_LDFLAGS="
+-X main.version=${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}
+-X main.branch=${_GIT_BRANCH}
+-X main.commit=${_COMMIT}
+"
+
+termux_step_pre_configure() {
+	termux_setup_golang
+	export GOPATH=$TERMUX_PKG_BUILDDIR/_go
+	mkdir -p $GOPATH
+	go mod tidy
+}
+
+termux_step_make() {
+	go install -ldflags="${_GO_LDFLAGS}" ./...
+}
+
+termux_step_make_install() {
+	install -Dm700 -t $TERMUX_PREFIX/bin $GOPATH/bin/*/influx*
+}