diff --git a/main/alpine-baselayout/APKBUILD b/main/alpine-baselayout/APKBUILD
index 29f97c7f7ae..e8578c694aa 100644
--- a/main/alpine-baselayout/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/alpine-baselayout/APKBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
 pkgname=alpine-baselayout
 pkgver=3.2.0
-pkgrel=15
+pkgrel=16
 pkgdesc="Alpine base dir structure and init scripts"
 url="https://git.alpinelinux.org/cgit/aports/tree/main/alpine-baselayout"
 arch="all"
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ bfe947bdd69e7d93b32c8cb4e2cabe5717cb6c1e1f49a74015ac2cfb13e96d1f12c4be23ae93a1d6
 806b8f23f823a9471846d12fa6b55690b95eedb4c613b82aefaba7ffef23f83e17552befd891a487864f72ef24e395d8611738933f684a85eb4c336cb20994f8  group
 fdab6f8fec2a556ab817d90a73635a927ea04dbc4e0470ed59ee6a62c87393f9534c9b746b09a776d938c25b8af9c9fb1686578e24f8307d1d074921ade1bdc7  inittab
 06d12a7b9ca14fe17e412d0f24814620b67d035ae859be7906cbf4782dd69e359a6a555dafb98060b7fb7e4714aaa676c88d9017cded36e6d8398e23369bb290  passwd
-73cad571186f8c3202ca87af3d735d85b276a0e0c0877fc6f248de22a57f5995963173d6265dff42e0534c9dc96c2ad09bb21ded6add94dc01363382b95da10f  profile
+a9f7afdd6baca774fc0383b40b96b6138dcba437b8848865b2c65592bcfc5da174917f7cfea616340e8af484db65758e3e5a577d113bda32eef19c44677d7a6f  profile
 eadc83e47fcc354ab83fd109bee452bda170886fb684e67faf615930c11480919505f4af60c685b124efc54af0ded9522663132f911eac6622144f8b4c8be695  protocols-6.2
 adfae0d2f569c2a2f413b7e27683a007fc8ca689b8c3349672fe0dcb6208c192ede4402eff09c604b7e7b4fd9d8df93b875efa5bdaa6c14ff1d8022a7caad5cd  services-6.2
 "
diff --git a/main/alpine-baselayout/profile b/main/alpine-baselayout/profile
index 45caac1d92e..5683203fd56 100644
--- a/main/alpine-baselayout/profile
+++ b/main/alpine-baselayout/profile
@@ -1,4 +1,24 @@
-export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
+# Append "$1" to $PATH when not already in.
+# Copied from Arch Linux, see #12803 for details.
+append_path () {
+	case ":$PATH:" in
+		*:"$1":*)
+			;;
+		*)
+			PATH="${PATH:+$PATH:}$1"
+			;;
+	esac
+}
+
+append_path "/usr/local/sbin"
+append_path "/usr/local/bin"
+append_path "/usr/sbin"
+append_path "/usr/bin"
+append_path "/sbin"
+append_path "/bin"
+unset -f append_path
+
+export PATH
 export PAGER=less
 umask 022