diff --git a/testing/cargo-generate/APKBUILD b/testing/cargo-generate/APKBUILD
index cd8df0fdbb9..1dfaac2ab08 100644
--- a/testing/cargo-generate/APKBUILD
+++ b/testing/cargo-generate/APKBUILD
@@ -1,30 +1,23 @@
 # Contributor: Michał Polański <michal@polanski.me>
 # Maintainer: Michał Polański <michal@polanski.me>
 pkgname=cargo-generate
-pkgver=0.22.0
-pkgrel=1
+pkgver=0.22.1
+pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="Use pre-existing git repositories as templates"
 url="https://github.com/cargo-generate/cargo-generate"
 license="MIT OR Apache-2.0"
-# loongarch64: blocked by libc crate
-arch="all !s390x !loongarch64" # fails to build nix crate
-makedepends="cargo libgit2-dev openssl-dev cargo-auditable"
-source="https://github.com/cargo-generate/cargo-generate/archive/v$pkgver/cargo-generate-$pkgver.tar.gz"
+arch="all !s390x" # fails to build nix crate
+makedepends="cargo cargo-auditable libgit2-dev openssl-dev"
+source="https://github.com/cargo-generate/cargo-generate/archive/v$pkgver/cargo-generate-$pkgver.tar.gz
+	libgit2-1.9-compat.patch
+	"
 options="net" # fetch dependencies
 
+export LIBGIT2_NO_VENDOR=1 # use system libgit2
+
 prepare() {
 	default_prepare
 
-	# Rust target triple.
-	local target=$(rustc -vV | sed -n 's/host: //p')
-
-	# Build against system-provided libs
-	mkdir -p .cargo
-	cat >> .cargo/config.toml <<-EOF
-		[target.$target]
-		git2 = { rustc-link-lib = ["git2"] }
-	EOF
-
 	cargo fetch --target="$CTARGET" --locked
 }
 
@@ -41,5 +34,6 @@ package() {
 }
 
 sha512sums="
-6f29ab6e465b19a0ab0cf0415180ca9fc1267bcb214f9c02457934be4548c2033b4e54b73e0b11127bd729b27b5d679cc87115b069b71ccf5a3dbfabec56d578  cargo-generate-0.22.0.tar.gz
+e5acb6a874a32244d17cff63645e91e4710508e0c5c3e87350bc8bfadda00dfabb8fc4a283988d3c197ea1124554467e75bd60716ccace17533849b4fb152a1e  cargo-generate-0.22.1.tar.gz
+c84a0a53ba89562f0bf1430faa239986791093688f8d0ba06cfa1701bcd38773538330cb5ae1a6bb1723b03b764e7378ae3526c1d6b624eb2df2ef26505f7b3b  libgit2-1.9-compat.patch
 "
diff --git a/testing/cargo-generate/libgit2-1.9-compat.patch b/testing/cargo-generate/libgit2-1.9-compat.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..06b7a52f85e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/cargo-generate/libgit2-1.9-compat.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
+index 6952e9c..8e6e0b6 100644
+--- a/Cargo.lock
++++ b/Cargo.lock
+@@ -628,9 +628,9 @@ dependencies = [
+ 
+ [[package]]
+ name = "git2"
+-version = "0.19.0"
++version = "0.20.0"
+ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+-checksum = "b903b73e45dc0c6c596f2d37eccece7c1c8bb6e4407b001096387c63d0d93724"
++checksum = "3fda788993cc341f69012feba8bf45c0ba4f3291fcc08e214b4d5a7332d88aff"
+ dependencies = [
+  "bitflags",
+  "libc",
+@@ -1188,9 +1188,9 @@ checksum = "b5aba8db14291edd000dfcc4d620c7ebfb122c613afb886ca8803fa4e128a20a"
+ 
+ [[package]]
+ name = "libgit2-sys"
+-version = "0.17.0+1.8.1"
++version = "0.18.0+1.9.0"
+ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+-checksum = "10472326a8a6477c3c20a64547b0059e4b0d086869eee31e6d7da728a8eb7224"
++checksum = "e1a117465e7e1597e8febea8bb0c410f1c7fb93b1e1cddf34363f8390367ffec"
+ dependencies = [
+  "cc",
+  "libc",
+diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
+index 3e4400e..38bc2ae 100644
+--- a/Cargo.toml
++++ b/Cargo.toml
+@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ include = ["src/**/*", "LICENSE-*", "*.md"]
+ [dependencies.git2]
+ default-features = false
+ features = ["ssh", "https"]
+-version = "~0.19"
++version = "~0.20"
+ 
+ [dependencies]
+ anstyle = "~1.0"