diff --git a/srcpkgs/chroot-glibc/INSTALL b/srcpkgs/chroot-glibc/INSTALL
index ad456beb52..5d7eb1782d 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/chroot-glibc/INSTALL
+++ b/srcpkgs/chroot-glibc/INSTALL
@@ -4,13 +4,12 @@ case "${ACTION}" in
 post)
 	LOCALE_ARCHIVEDIR=usr/lib/locale
 	LOCALE_ARCHIVE=${LOCALE_ARCHIVEDIR}/locale-archive
-	LOCALE_ALIAS=usr/share/locale/locale.alias
 
 	[ -n "$POSIXLY_CORRECT" ] && unset POSIXLY_CORRECT
 	[ -f $LOCALE_ARCHIVE ] && rm -f $LOCALE_ARCHIVE
 	[ ! -d $LOCALE_ARCHIVEDIR ] && mkdir -p $LOCALE_ARCHIVEDIR
 
 	echo "Generating GNU libc locale: en_US.UTF-8 ..."
-	localedef --prefix=. -c -f UTF-8 -i en_US -A $LOCALE_ALIAS en_US.UTF-8 
+	localedef --prefix=. -c -f UTF-8 -i en_US en_US.UTF-8
 	;;
 esac
diff --git a/srcpkgs/chroot-glibc/template b/srcpkgs/chroot-glibc/template
index 215083f6a7..2c21b38735 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/chroot-glibc/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/chroot-glibc/template
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ pkgname=chroot-glibc
 _majorver=2.17
 version=${_majorver}
 wrksrc="glibc-${version}"
-revision=7
+revision=8
 short_desc="The GNU C library -- for xbps-src use"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc"