diff --git a/srcpkgs/wget/patches/0001-Fix-logging-in-background-mode.patch b/srcpkgs/wget/patches/0001-Fix-logging-in-background-mode.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9f09c320a59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/wget/patches/0001-Fix-logging-in-background-mode.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+From c722973212547aa812cd818279e3fb989fb38dd4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Tim=20R=C3=BChsen?= <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de>
+Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 22:33:06 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix logging in background mode
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+* ../src/main.c: Re-init logfile if changed for background mode
+* ../src/utils.c: fork_to_background() returns whether logfile changed
+* ../src/utils.h: Set return type bool for fork_to_background()
+
+Fixes: #53020
+Reported-by: Noël Köthe
+---
+ src/main.c  | 7 ++++++-
+ src/utils.c | 4 +++-
+ src/utils.h | 2 +-
+ 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git src/main.c src/main.c
+index 0ffd551a..5430e7ce 100644
+--- src/main.c
++++ src/main.c
+@@ -1880,7 +1880,12 @@ for details.\n\n"));
+   sock_init();
+ #else
+   if (opt.background)
+-    fork_to_background ();
++    {
++      bool logfile_changed = fork_to_background ();
++
++      if (logfile_changed)
++        log_init (opt.lfilename, append_to_log);
++    }
+ #endif
+ 
+   /* Initialize progress.  Have to do this after the options are
+diff --git src/utils.c src/utils.c
+index 6f41fabe..2d265c11 100644
+--- src/utils.c
++++ src/utils.c
+@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ fork_to_background (void)
+ #else /* def __VMS */
+ 
+ #if !defined(WINDOWS) && !defined(MSDOS)
+-void
++bool
+ fork_to_background (void)
+ {
+   pid_t pid;
+@@ -514,6 +514,8 @@ fork_to_background (void)
+     DEBUGP (("Failed to redirect stdout to /dev/null.\n"));
+   if (freopen ("/dev/null", "w", stderr) == NULL)
+     DEBUGP (("Failed to redirect stderr to /dev/null.\n"));
++
++  return logfile_changed;
+ }
+ #endif /* !WINDOWS && !MSDOS */
+ 
+diff --git src/utils.h src/utils.h
+index 66838f2c..26e2c28c 100644
+--- src/utils.h
++++ src/utils.h
+@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ char *xstrdup_lower (const char *);
+ char *strdupdelim (const char *, const char *);
+ char **sepstring (const char *);
+ bool subdir_p (const char *, const char *);
+-void fork_to_background (void);
++bool fork_to_background (void);
+ 
+ char *aprintf (const char *, ...) GCC_FORMAT_ATTR (1, 2);
+ char *concat_strings (const char *, ...);
+-- 
+2.16.1
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/wget/template b/srcpkgs/wget/template
index e2cc2479413..3abce52792f 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/wget/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/wget/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'wget'
 pkgname=wget
 version=1.19.4
-revision=1
+revision=2
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="$(vopt_if ssl '--with-ssl=openssl') $(vopt_if gnutls '--with-ssl=gnutls')"
 hostmakedepends="perl pkg-config"