diff --git a/build-aux/edit-script.sh.in b/build-aux/edit-script.sh.in
index 85c56cfe..992033b2 100644
--- a/build-aux/edit-script.sh.in
+++ b/build-aux/edit-script.sh.in
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ sed \
   -e "s|@DEBUGSUFFIX[@]|@DEBUGSUFFIX@|g" \
   -e "s|@INODECMD[@]|@INODECMD@|g" \
   -e "s|@FILECMD[@]|@FILECMD@|g" \
+  -e "s|@BSDTAR_NO_READ_SPARSE[@]|@BSDTAR_NO_READ_SPARSE@|g" \
   "$input" >"$output"
 
 if [[ $mode ]]; then
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index b7cca865..1519a2bb 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ endif
 libarchive = dependency('libarchive',
                         version : '>=3.0.0',
                         static : get_option('buildstatic'))
+if libarchive.version().version_compare('>=3.6.0')
+  bsdtar_no_read_sparse = '--no-read-sparse'
+else
+  bsdtar_no_read_sparse = ''
+endif
 
 libcurl = dependency('libcurl',
                      version : '>=7.55.0',
@@ -274,6 +279,7 @@ substs.set('LIBMAKEPKGDIR', LIBMAKEPKGDIR)
 substs.set('STRIP_BINARIES', strip_binaries)
 substs.set('STRIP_SHARED', strip_shared)
 substs.set('STRIP_STATIC', strip_static)
+substs.set('BSDTAR_NO_READ_SPARSE', bsdtar_no_read_sparse)
 
 subdir('lib/libalpm')
 subdir('src/common')
diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
index 5aaabf63..69757d03 100644
--- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
+++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
@@ -616,7 +616,7 @@ create_package() {
 	msg2 "$(gettext "Compressing package...")"
 	# TODO: Maybe this can be set globally for robustness
 	shopt -s -o pipefail
-	list_package_files | LANG=C bsdtar --no-fflags -cnf - --null --files-from - |
+	list_package_files | LANG=C bsdtar --no-fflags @BSDTAR_NO_READ_SPARSE@ -cnf - --null --files-from - |
 		compress_as "$PKGEXT" > "${pkg_file}" || ret=$?
 
 	shopt -u -o pipefail
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ create_srcpackage() {
 
 	# TODO: Maybe this can be set globally for robustness
 	shopt -s -o pipefail
-	LANG=C bsdtar --no-fflags -cLf - ${pkgbase} | compress_as "$SRCEXT" > "${pkg_file}" || ret=$?
+	LANG=C bsdtar --no-fflags @BSDTAR_NO_READ_SPARSE@ -cLf - ${pkgbase} | compress_as "$SRCEXT" > "${pkg_file}" || ret=$?
 
 	shopt -u -o pipefail