diff --git a/contrib/checkupdates.sh.in b/contrib/checkupdates.sh.in
index e8a81986..ff62891b 100644
--- a/contrib/checkupdates.sh.in
+++ b/contrib/checkupdates.sh.in
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ eval $(awk -F' *= *' '$1 ~ /DBPath/ { print $1 "=" $2 }' @sysconfdir@/pacman.con
 
 mkdir -p "$CHECKUPDATES_DB"
 ln -s "${DBPath}/local" "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" &> /dev/null
-fakeroot pacman -Sy --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" --logfile /dev/null &> /dev/null
+fakeroot -- pacman -Sy --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" --logfile /dev/null &> /dev/null
 pacman -Qu --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATES_DB" 2> /dev/null | grep -v '\[.*\]'
 
 exit 0