diff --git a/packages/tar/build.sh b/packages/tar/build.sh
index bb0d8bba9..faa9956b7 100644
--- a/packages/tar/build.sh
+++ b/packages/tar/build.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="GNU tar for manipulating tar archives"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-3.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.32
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=d0d3ae07f103323be809bc3eac0dcc386d52c5262499fe05511ac4788af1fdd8
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/tar/tar-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 # Allow xz compression (busybox only provides xz decompression):
diff --git a/packages/tar/tmpdir-path.patch b/packages/tar/tmpdir-path.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..aeee2f1b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/tar/tmpdir-path.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+diff -uNr tar-1.31/gnu/tempname.c tar-1.31.mod/gnu/tempname.c
+--- tar-1.31/gnu/tempname.c	2019-01-02 20:16:01.000000000 +0200
++++ tar-1.31.mod/gnu/tempname.c	2019-03-01 18:31:05.035530338 +0200
+@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
+
+ #include <stdio.h>
+ #ifndef P_tmpdir
+-# define P_tmpdir "/tmp"
++# define P_tmpdir "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp"
+ #endif
+ #ifndef TMP_MAX
+ # define TMP_MAX 238328
+@@ -147,8 +147,8 @@
+     {
+       if (direxists (P_tmpdir))
+         dir = P_tmpdir;
+-      else if (strcmp (P_tmpdir, "/tmp") != 0 && direxists ("/tmp"))
+-        dir = "/tmp";
++      else if (strcmp (P_tmpdir, "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp") != 0 && direxists ("@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp"))
++        dir = "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp";
+       else
+         {
+           __set_errno (ENOENT);
+diff -uNr tar-1.31/src/xheader.c tar-1.31.mod/src/xheader.c
+--- tar-1.31/src/xheader.c	2019-01-02 20:07:48.000000000 +0200
++++ tar-1.31.mod/src/xheader.c	2019-03-01 18:31:18.538927987 +0200
+@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@
+       size_t len;
+       const char *tmp = getenv ("TMPDIR");
+       if (!tmp)
+-	tmp = "/tmp";
++	tmp = "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp";
+       len = strlen (tmp) + sizeof (GLOBAL_HEADER_TEMPLATE); /* Includes nul */
+       globexthdr_name = xmalloc (len);
+       strcpy(globexthdr_name, tmp);