diff --git a/main/boot-deploy/APKBUILD b/main/boot-deploy/APKBUILD
index e86d30c27..c1dbc78ee 100644
--- a/main/boot-deploy/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/boot-deploy/APKBUILD
@@ -1,14 +1,16 @@
 # Maintainer: Clayton Craft <clayton@craftyguy.net>
 pkgname=boot-deploy
 pkgver=0.18
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=3
 pkgdesc="tool for finalizing and deploying boot related files"
 url="https://gitlab.com/postmarketos/boot-deploy"
 arch="noarch"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
 source="
-	os-customization
 	https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/boot-deploy/-/archive/$pkgver/boot-deploy-$pkgver.tar.gz
+
+	os-customization
+	use-busybox-sh.patch
 	"
 
 check() {
@@ -27,6 +29,7 @@ package() {
 		"$pkgdir"/usr/share/mkinitfs-triggers/boot-deploy
 }
 sha512sums="
-a243975b9850d9933e0f917f7eb38fc4a76ea658c3dcc56f035f60ee6c62d6740c1107143b8210bdc0231d4c9b6b2003e458120985604eb09649322d359ae89f  os-customization
 e4b059c149a96f896804c7971107f738852bf1dfadd5832e4e2b3ebf2bf00f05570bd45f0f2bea69f54755fbf6bffc9091a1d6baed7b1537679afef5c44a5fd0  boot-deploy-0.18.tar.gz
+a243975b9850d9933e0f917f7eb38fc4a76ea658c3dcc56f035f60ee6c62d6740c1107143b8210bdc0231d4c9b6b2003e458120985604eb09649322d359ae89f  os-customization
+5b3da17fab1b0e76b3686667c0c8c3a3e29a5794406875dd6375d73c5b1b47d60da6cf54720a3d8ad98b79c563af0863fedc87d2506b19055fb3fdea1cbd731d  use-busybox-sh.patch
 "
diff --git a/main/boot-deploy/use-busybox-sh.patch b/main/boot-deploy/use-busybox-sh.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..437b024a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/main/boot-deploy/use-busybox-sh.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+diff --git boot-deploy boot-deploy
+index df0c7b9..4f2ecfc 100755
+--- a/boot-deploy
++++ b/boot-deploy
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-#!/bin/sh
++#!/bin/busybox sh
+ # Copyright 2021 Clayton Craft <clayton@craftyguy.net>
+ # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+ set -eu
+diff --git boot-deploy-functions.sh boot-deploy-functions.sh
+index fb50e61..32de0ef 100644
+--- a/boot-deploy-functions.sh
++++ b/boot-deploy-functions.sh
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-#!/bin/sh
++#!/bin/busybox sh
+ # Copyright 2021 postmarketOS Contributors
+ # Copyright 2021 Clayton Craft <clayton@craftyguy.net>
+ # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later