diff --git a/sysklogd/.md5sum b/sysklogd/.md5sum
index 076f8fd..7230059 100644
--- a/sysklogd/.md5sum
+++ b/sysklogd/.md5sum
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+8e696abdc85f3d7c505d774ed81aa0ef  28a1fb30567c6aecb1b50c79c4b7d17a03ed2453.patch
 52b2544aedf0ed90007ce936b63aa975  cron.syslog
 06705a148bc033eac191069e969f052f  rc.sysklogd
 576f95e96bcafa77d7b3d0553b94a682  rotatelog
diff --git a/sysklogd/28a1fb30567c6aecb1b50c79c4b7d17a03ed2453.patch b/sysklogd/28a1fb30567c6aecb1b50c79c4b7d17a03ed2453.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dbbc92d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sysklogd/28a1fb30567c6aecb1b50c79c4b7d17a03ed2453.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From 28a1fb30567c6aecb1b50c79c4b7d17a03ed2453 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
+Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 11:42:36 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Read *.conf files from include/ directories sorted
+
+No point in "saving time" on this operation.  It is more important to
+users that we read the files in a predefined order, alphabetically.
+
+Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
+---
+ src/syslogd.c | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/syslogd.c b/src/syslogd.c
+index ccd1870..e6d8747 100644
+--- a/src/syslogd.c
++++ b/src/syslogd.c
+@@ -3400,7 +3400,7 @@ static int cfparse(FILE *fp, struct files *newf)
+ 				p++;
+ 
+ 			logit("Searching for %s ...\n", p);
+-			if (glob(p, GLOB_NOSORT, NULL, &gl))
++			if (glob(p, 0, NULL, &gl))
+ 				logit("No files match %s\n", p);
+ 
+ 			for (size_t i = 0; i < gl.gl_pathc; i++) {
diff --git a/sysklogd/Pkgfile b/sysklogd/Pkgfile
index 3de3367..95d51d0 100644
--- a/sysklogd/Pkgfile
+++ b/sysklogd/Pkgfile
@@ -3,11 +3,15 @@
 
 name=sysklogd
 version=2.6.0
-release=1
+release=2
 source="https://github.com/troglobit/$name/releases/download/v$version/$name-$version.tar.gz
+	28a1fb30567c6aecb1b50c79c4b7d17a03ed2453.patch
 	rotatelog rotatelog.8 cron.syslog syslog.conf rc.sysklogd"
 
 build() {
+	# [PATCH] Read *.conf files from include/ directories sorted
+	patch -d $name-$version -p1 -i $SRC/28a1fb30567c6aecb1b50c79c4b7d17a03ed2453.patch
+
 	# remove irrelevant note from the man page
 	sed 's/(The shipped systemd unit file disables this by default.)//' \
 		-i $name-$version/man/syslogd.8