diff --git a/packages/luarocks/build.sh b/packages/luarocks/build.sh
index 655bf8cef..255bcb076 100644
--- a/packages/luarocks/build.sh
+++ b/packages/luarocks/build.sh
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://luarocks.org/
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Deployment and management system for Lua modules"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="BSD"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=2.4.4
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=3938df33de33752ff2c526e604410af3dceb4b7ff06a770bc4a240de80a1f934
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=3.0.4
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=1236a307ca5c556c4fed9fdbd35a7e0e80ccf063024becc8c3bf212f37ff0edf
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="curl, lua"
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="liblua-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_IN_SRC=yes
 TERMUX_PKG_PLATFORM_INDEPENDENT=yes
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_MAKE_ARGS="LUA=/usr/bin/lua"
 
 termux_step_configure() {
 	./configure --prefix=$TERMUX_PREFIX \
diff --git a/packages/luarocks/configure.patch b/packages/luarocks/configure.patch
index 990fdeaed..bae7895d1 100644
--- a/packages/luarocks/configure.patch
+++ b/packages/luarocks/configure.patch
@@ -1,30 +1,40 @@
-diff -u -r ../luarocks-2.4.3/configure ./configure
---- ../luarocks-2.4.3/configure	2017-09-13 01:46:14.000000000 +0200
-+++ ./configure	2017-10-14 23:43:39.753730578 +0200
-@@ -305,26 +305,6 @@
+--- ./configure.orig	2019-03-10 15:10:39.226464224 +0100
++++ ./configure	2019-03-10 15:13:22.879796367 +0100
+@@ -377,37 +377,6 @@
     }
- fi
+ done
  
 -if [ "$lua_interp_found" != "yes" ]
 -then
--   [ "$LUA_VERSION_SET" ] && { interp="Lua $LUA_VERSION" ;} || { interp="Lua" ;}
--   [ "$LUA_DIR_SET" -o "$LUA_BINDIR_SET" ] && { where="$LUA_BINDIR" ;} || { where="\$PATH" ;}
--   echo "$interp interpreter not found in $where"
--   die "You may want to use the flags --with-lua, --with-lua-bin and/or --lua-suffix. See --help."
+-   if [ "$LUA_VERSION_SET" ]
+-   then
+-      interp="Lua $LUA_VERSION"
+-   else
+-      interp="Lua"
+-   fi
+-   if [ "$LUA_DIR_SET" ] || [ "$LUA_BINDIR_SET" ]
+-   then
+-      where="$LUA_BINDIR"
+-   else
+-      where="\$PATH"
+-   fi
+-   echo "$(RED $interp interpreter not found) in $where"
+-   echo "You may want to use the flags $(BOLD --with-lua), $(BOLD --with-lua-bin) and/or $(BOLD --lua-version)"
+-   die "Run $(BOLD ./configure --help) for details."
 -fi
 -
 -if [ "$LUA_VERSION_SET" = "yes" ]
 -then
--   echo_n "Checking if $LUA_BINDIR/lua$LUA_SUFFIX is Lua version $LUA_VERSION... "
--   if detect_lua_version "$LUA_BINDIR/lua$LUA_SUFFIX"
+-   echo_n "Checking if $LUA_BINDIR/$LUA_INTERPRETER is Lua version $LUA_VERSION... "
+-   if detect_lua_version "$LUA_BINDIR/$LUA_INTERPRETER"
 -   then
 -      echo "yes"
 -   else
 -      echo "no"
--      die "You may want to use the flags --with-lua, --with-lua-bin and/or --lua-suffix. See --help."
+-      die "You may want to use the flags --with-lua, --with-lua-bin and/or --lua-version. See --help."
 -   fi
 -fi
 -
- if [ "$LUA_INCDIR_SET" != "yes" ]
- then
-    LUA_INCDIR="$LUA_DIR/include"
+ # ----------------------------------------
+ # Additional checks
+ # ----------------------------------------
diff --git a/packages/luarocks/lua.lua.patch b/packages/luarocks/lua.lua.patch
index a6fc30b47..a725d1958 100644
--- a/packages/luarocks/lua.lua.patch
+++ b/packages/luarocks/lua.lua.patch
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
-diff -u -r ../luarocks-2.4.0/src/luarocks/fs/lua.lua ./src/luarocks/fs/lua.lua
---- ../luarocks-2.4.0/src/luarocks/fs/lua.lua	2016-09-08 14:39:09.000000000 -0400
-+++ ./src/luarocks/fs/lua.lua	2016-09-26 09:13:06.062435573 -0400
-@@ -781,7 +781,7 @@
-    assert(type(name) == "string")
-    name = dir.normalize(name)
+--- ./src/luarocks/fs/lua.lua.orig	2019-03-10 15:14:28.333129223 +0100
++++ ./src/luarocks/fs/lua.lua	2019-03-10 15:32:29.349788026 +0100
+@@ -961,7 +961,7 @@
+    assert(type(name_pattern) == "string")
+    name_pattern = dir.normalize(name_pattern)
  
--   return posix.mkdtemp((os.getenv("TMPDIR") or "/tmp") .. "/luarocks_" .. name:gsub(dir.separator, "_") .. "-XXXXXX")
-+   return posix.mkdtemp((os.getenv("TMPDIR") or "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp") .. "/luarocks_" .. name:gsub(dir.separator, "_") .. "-XXXXXX")
+-   return posix.mkdtemp((os.getenv("TMPDIR") or "/tmp") .. "/luarocks_" .. name_pattern:gsub("/", "_") .. "-XXXXXX")
++   return posix.mkdtemp((os.getenv("TMPDIR") or "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp") .. "/luarocks_" .. name_pattern:gsub("/", "_") .. "-XXXXXX")
  end
  
- end
+ end -- if posix.mkdtemp
diff --git a/packages/luarocks/src-luarocks-cfg.lua.patch b/packages/luarocks/src-luarocks-cfg.lua.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5dc991942..000000000
--- a/packages/luarocks/src-luarocks-cfg.lua.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- ../cfg.lua.orig	2018-05-25 06:56:17.183526289 +0000
-+++ ./src/luarocks/cfg.lua	2018-05-25 06:57:25.695490218 +0000
-@@ -517,10 +517,10 @@
-    defaults.lib_extension = "so"
-    defaults.external_lib_extension = "so"
-    defaults.obj_extension = "o"
--   defaults.external_deps_dirs = { "/usr/local", "/usr" }
--   defaults.variables.LUA_BINDIR = site_config.LUA_BINDIR or "/usr/local/bin"
--   defaults.variables.LUA_INCDIR = site_config.LUA_INCDIR or "/usr/local/include"
--   defaults.variables.LUA_LIBDIR = site_config.LUA_LIBDIR or "/usr/local/lib"
-+   defaults.external_deps_dirs = { "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/local", "@TERMUX_PREFIX@" }
-+   defaults.variables.LUA_BINDIR = site_config.LUA_BINDIR or "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/local/bin"
-+   defaults.variables.LUA_INCDIR = site_config.LUA_INCDIR or "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/local/include"
-+   defaults.variables.LUA_LIBDIR = site_config.LUA_LIBDIR or "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/local/lib"
-    defaults.variables.CFLAGS = "-O2"
-    defaults.cmake_generator = "Unix Makefiles"
-    defaults.variables.CC = "gcc"
diff --git a/packages/luarocks/src-luarocks-core-cfg.lua.patch b/packages/luarocks/src-luarocks-core-cfg.lua.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0892b5087
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/luarocks/src-luarocks-core-cfg.lua.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- ./src/luarocks/core/cfg.lua~	2018-10-30 18:31:40.000000000 +0100
++++ ./src/luarocks/core/cfg.lua	2019-03-10 16:33:24.676428404 +0100
+@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@
+       defaults.static_lib_extension = "a"
+       defaults.external_lib_extension = "so"
+       defaults.obj_extension = "o"
+-      defaults.external_deps_dirs = { "/usr/local", "/usr", "/" }
++      defaults.external_deps_dirs = { "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/local", "@TERMUX_PREFIX@" }
+       defaults.variables.CFLAGS = "-O2"
+       defaults.cmake_generator = "Unix Makefiles"
+       defaults.variables.CC = "gcc"
diff --git a/packages/luarocks/unix-tools.lua.patch b/packages/luarocks/unix-tools.lua.patch
index 3b5a9e05d..0f10788b9 100644
--- a/packages/luarocks/unix-tools.lua.patch
+++ b/packages/luarocks/unix-tools.lua.patch
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
-diff -u -r ../luarocks-2.4.0/src/luarocks/fs/unix/tools.lua ./src/luarocks/fs/unix/tools.lua
---- ../luarocks-2.4.0/src/luarocks/fs/unix/tools.lua	2016-09-08 14:39:09.000000000 -0400
-+++ ./src/luarocks/fs/unix/tools.lua	2016-09-26 09:19:08.200979160 -0400
-@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
-    assert(type(name) == "string")
-    name = dir.normalize(name)
+--- ./src/luarocks/fs/unix/tools.lua.orig	2019-03-10 16:35:27.583094191 +0100
++++ ./src/luarocks/fs/unix/tools.lua	2019-03-10 16:36:17.913093843 +0100
+@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@
+    assert(type(name_pattern) == "string")
+    name_pattern = dir.normalize(name_pattern)
  
--   local template = (os.getenv("TMPDIR") or "/tmp") .. "/luarocks_" .. name:gsub(dir.separator, "_") .. "-XXXXXX"
-+   local template = (os.getenv("TMPDIR") or "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp") .. "/luarocks_" .. name:gsub(dir.separator, "_") .. "-XXXXXX"
+-   local template = (os.getenv("TMPDIR") or "/tmp") .. "/luarocks_" .. name_pattern:gsub("/", "_") .. "-XXXXXX"
++   local template = (os.getenv("TMPDIR") or "@TERMUX_PREFIX@/tmp") .. "/luarocks_" .. name_pattern:gsub("/", "_") .. "-XXXXXX"
     local pipe = io.popen(vars.MKTEMP.." -d "..fs.Q(template))
     local dirname = pipe:read("*l")
     pipe:close()