diff --git a/common/environment/setup/archive.sh b/common/environment/setup/archive.sh
index 38853b87a8fdc7..45fa96a8b1cfd5 100644
--- a/common/environment/setup/archive.sh
+++ b/common/environment/setup/archive.sh
@@ -167,3 +167,20 @@ vsrcextract() {
 	vextract "$sc" ${dst:+-C "$dst"} \
 		"${XBPS_SRCDISTDIR}/${pkgname}-${version}/$1"
 }
+
+vtar() {
+	bsdtar "$@"
+}
+
+vsrccopy() {
+	local _tgt
+	if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
+		msg_error "vsrccopy <file>... <target>"
+	fi
+	_tgt="${@:-1}"
+	mkdir -p "$_tgt"
+	while [ $# -gt 1 ]; do
+		cp -a "${XBPS_SRCDISTDIR}/${pkgname}-${version}/$1" "$_tgt"
+		shift
+	done
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xen/template b/srcpkgs/xen/template
index 160db8e6592953..9f08f0eb13868f 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/xen/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/xen/template
@@ -104,15 +104,11 @@ conf_files="
  /etc/xen/xl.conf"
 
 post_extract() {
-	local _src="${XBPS_SRCDISTDIR}/${pkgname}-${version}"
-
 	msg_normal "Extracting etherboot ipxe files ...\n"
 	mkdir tools/firmware/etherboot/ipxe
-	tar --strip-components=1 -x \
-		-f ${_src}/${_git_tag_ipxe}.tar.gz \
-		-C tools/firmware/etherboot/ipxe/
+	vsrcextract -C tools/firmware/etherboot/ipxe ${_git_tag_ipxe}.tar.gz
 	# Create a tarball w/o the git tag
-	tar -czf tools/firmware/etherboot/ipxe.tar.gz \
+	vtar -czf tools/firmware/etherboot/ipxe.tar.gz \
 		-C tools/firmware/etherboot/ ipxe
 
 	if [ "$build_option_stubdom" ]; then
@@ -121,16 +117,16 @@ post_extract() {
 			-e"/RAW_ADDR/s/(int) grub_scratch_mem/(long) grub_scratch_mem/"
 		mkdir -p stubdom/mini-os-x86_64-grub/{arch/x86,console,lib,xenbus}
 		msg_normal "Copying stubdom files ...\n"
-		cp -pv \
-			${_src}/grub-${_grub_version}.tar.gz \
-			${_src}/gmp-${_gmp_version}.tar.bz2 \
-			${_src}/zlib-${_zlib_version}.tar.gz \
-			${_src}/lwip-${_lwip_version}.tar.gz \
-			${_src}/polarssl-${_polarssl_version}-gpl.tgz \
-			${_src}/newlib-${_newlib_version}.tar.gz \
-			${_src}/pciutils-${_libpci_version}.tar.bz2 \
-			${_src}/tpm_emulator-${_tpmemu_version}.tar.gz \
-			${_src}/ocaml-${_ocaml_version}.tar.gz \
+		vsrccopy \
+			grub-${_grub_version}.tar.gz \
+			gmp-${_gmp_version}.tar.bz2 \
+			zlib-${_zlib_version}.tar.gz \
+			lwip-${_lwip_version}.tar.gz \
+			polarssl-${_polarssl_version}-gpl.tgz \
+			newlib-${_newlib_version}.tar.gz \
+			pciutils-${_libpci_version}.tar.bz2 \
+			tpm_emulator-${_tpmemu_version}.tar.gz \
+			ocaml-${_ocaml_version}.tar.gz \
 			stubdom/
 	fi
 }