diff --git a/usr/lib/archboot/container.sh b/usr/lib/archboot/container.sh
index 0154049af..904def944 100644
--- a/usr/lib/archboot/container.sh
+++ b/usr/lib/archboot/container.sh
@@ -199,14 +199,14 @@ _set_hostname() {
 
 # patch mkinitcpio to preserve permissions and use bsdcpio
 # Result is this code:
-#     find . | bsdcpio --quiet -o -H newc |
+#     find . | cpio --reproducible --quiet -o -H newc |
 #            $compress "${COMPRESSION_OPTIONS[@]}" > "$compressout")
 #    pipeprogs=("find" "bsdcpio" "$compress")
 _fix_initramfs_permissions() {
     echo "Preserving permissions and bsdcpio usage in mkinitcpio run..."
-    sed -i -e 's#find . -mindepth 1 -printf .*#find . | LANG=C bsdcpio --quiet -o -H newc |#g' "${1}"/usr/bin/mkinitcpio
+    sed -i -e 's#find . -mindepth 1 -printf .*#find . -mindepth 1 | cpio --reproducible --quiet -o -H newc |#g' "${1}"/usr/bin/mkinitcpio
     sed -i -e '/sort -z |/d' "${1}"/usr/bin/mkinitcpio
     sed -i -e '/LANG=C bsdtar .*/d' "${1}"/usr/bin/mkinitcpio
-    sed -i -e 's#pipeprogs=.*#pipeprogs=\("find" "bsdcpio" "$compress"\)#g' "${1}"/usr/bin/mkinitcpio
+    sed -i -e 's#pipeprogs=.*#pipeprogs=\("find" "cpio" "$compress"\)#g' "${1}"/usr/bin/mkinitcpio
 }
 # vim: set ft=sh ts=4 sw=4 et:
diff --git a/usr/lib/archboot/update-installer/update-installer.sh b/usr/lib/archboot/update-installer/update-installer.sh
index 824094953..27899504f 100644
--- a/usr/lib/archboot/update-installer/update-installer.sh
+++ b/usr/lib/archboot/update-installer/update-installer.sh
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ _create_initramfs() {
     # https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
     # compress image with zstd
     cd  "${_W_DIR}"/tmp || exit 1
-    find . | LANG=C bsdcpio --quiet -o -H newc | zstd --rm -T0> ${_RAM}/${_INITRD} &
+    find . -mindepth 1 | cpio --reproducible --quiet -o -H newc | zstd --rm -T0> ${_RAM}/${_INITRD} &
     sleep 2
     while pgrep -x zstd &>/dev/null; do
         _clean_kernel_cache
diff --git a/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base b/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base
index 0e987bafa..82fbe76ce 100644
--- a/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base
+++ b/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ build ()
     map add_binary head id cksum tail test uptime w who whoami xargs \
           swapon uniq seq fdisk sfdisk cfdisk parted free less \
           chgrp chown dialog dmesg egrep fgrep stty sync hdparm \
-          dirname chroot expr bzip2 su sdparm tput \
+          dirname chroot expr bzip2 su sdparm tput bsdtar bsdcpio \
           losetup mkfifo mknod readlink lzmadec lzop xz last wall mesg utmpdump \
           xzdec switch_root pivot_root chcpu ctrlaltdel gdisk sgdisk cgdisk fixparts findmnt \
           lsfd lsblk swaplabel cal chrt col colcrt colrm column fallocate flock getopt \
diff --git a/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base_cleanup b/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base_cleanup
index 388919211..9c3bfc20c 100644
--- a/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base_cleanup
+++ b/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base_cleanup
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ build ()
 {
     apps="head id cksum tail test uptime w who whoami xargs \
           swapon uniq seq fdisk sfdisk cfdisk parted free less \
-          chgrp dialog dmesg egrep fgrep stty sync hdparm \
+          chgrp dialog dmesg egrep fgrep stty sync hdparm bsdtar bsdcpio\
           dirname chroot expr bunzip2 bzcat bzip2 su sdparm tput \
           losetup mkfifo mknod  lzmadec lzop lzma lzcat unlzma unxz xzcat \
           lastb last wall mesg utmpdump xzdec switch_root pivot_root chcpu ctrlaltdel \
diff --git a/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base_common b/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base_common
index e6544771f..7d0c3744e 100644
--- a/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base_common
+++ b/usr/lib/initcpio/install/archboot_base_common
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ build ()
     ### add basic apps
     map add_binary init agetty basename mount umount clear env printf gawk tty bash rbash \
             partprobe cp dir du ls mv rm sed grep kill killall more ps pwd rmdir true cat \
-            mkdir echo false sleep kmod pidof touch chmod find wc uname bsdtar yes awk halt \
+            mkdir echo false sleep kmod pidof touch chmod find wc uname yes awk halt \
             shutdown reboot poweroff insmod modprobe sh dd sort zstd date tee mktemp \
             install pgrep mkfs.btrfs rmmod mountpoint gzip ldconfig nscd ln top df cut \
-            stat tr passwd od tar bsdcpio
+            stat tr passwd od tar cpio
 
     ### add nano
     add_binary nano