diff --git a/fs/cpio/cpio.mk b/fs/cpio/cpio.mk
index 81f8c393d1..72923ded47 100644
--- a/fs/cpio/cpio.mk
+++ b/fs/cpio/cpio.mk
@@ -32,15 +32,16 @@ ROOTFS_CPIO_PRE_GEN_HOOKS += ROOTFS_CPIO_ADD_INIT
 # --reproducible option was introduced in cpio v2.12, which may not be
 # available in some old distributions, so we build host-cpio
 ifeq ($(BR2_REPRODUCIBLE),y)
-ROOTFS_CPIO_DEPENDENCIES += host-cpio
-ROOTFS_CPIO_OPTS += --reproducible
+ROOTFS_CPIO_DEPENDENCIES += host-cpio host-libarchive
 endif
 
 define ROOTFS_CPIO_CMD
-	cd $(TARGET_DIR) && \
-	find . \
-	| LC_ALL=C sort \
-	| cpio $(ROOTFS_CPIO_OPTS) --quiet -o -H newc \
+	cd $(TARGET_DIR) \
+	&& find . -mindepth 1 -execdir touch -hcd "@0" "{}" + \
+	&& find . -mindepth 1 -printf '%P\0' \
+	| sort -z \
+	| LANG=C bsdtar --null -cnf - -T - \
+	| LANG=C bsdtar --uid 0 --gid 0 --null -cf - --format=newc @- \
 	> $@
 endef
 
diff --git a/package/libarchive/libarchive.mk b/package/libarchive/libarchive.mk
index 708ce637c2..2ba8dcab2a 100644
--- a/package/libarchive/libarchive.mk
+++ b/package/libarchive/libarchive.mk
@@ -135,7 +135,6 @@ endif
 # The only user of host-libarchive needs zlib support
 HOST_LIBARCHIVE_DEPENDENCIES = host-zlib
 HOST_LIBARCHIVE_CONF_OPTS = \
-	--disable-bsdtar \
 	--disable-bsdcpio \
 	--disable-bsdcat \
 	--disable-acl \