diff --git a/srcpkgs/ipe/template b/srcpkgs/ipe/template
index b7d1ca2be9..9f847b1f30 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/ipe/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/ipe/template
@@ -2,33 +2,33 @@
 pkgname=ipe
 version=7.1.5
 revision=2
-create_wrksrc=yes
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config git"
 makedepends="qt-devel lua-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel cairo-devel poppler-devel"
 short_desc="Drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or EPS formats"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-3, GPL-2"
 homepage="http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/"
-distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/ipe7/${pkgname}/7.1/${pkgname}-${version}-src.tar.gz
- ${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/ipe7/tools/figtoipe-20091205.tar.gz
- ${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/ipe7/tools/pdftoipe-20140303-src.tar.gz
- ${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/ipe7/tools/svgtoipe-20131107.tar.gz"
-checksum="fe63a0511bd52d4e256b06f35ce8abc5610267a10594280ca0aaaf15c6e27b1a
- cb8526fbe10fed1592a42623ae0d7f0570b47569d9aebffb235ca1fb0c0b27b1
- edeaeeac71eb95608e01a5e1a0c20af45cc90196511bb843dda3c2f596042df4
- 46586c07e2c836238e5188d8ce40f03eb3949cbfcd44650b4a23ecf6815f700d"
+distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/ipe7/${pkgname}/${version%.*}/${pkgname}-${version}-src.tar.gz"
+checksum="fe63a0511bd52d4e256b06f35ce8abc5610267a10594280ca0aaaf15c6e27b1a"
+
+do_fetch() {
+	# ipe-tools
+	local url="git://github.com/otfried/ipe-tools.git"
+	msg_normal "Fetching source from ${url}...\n"
+	git clone ${url} ${pkgname}-${version}
+}
 
 do_build() {
-	make ${makejobs} -C ipe-*/src IPEPREFIX=/usr LUA_PACKAGE=lua
-	make ${makejobs} -C figtoipe-*
-	make ${makejobs} -C pdftoipe-*
+	make ${makejobs} -C src IPEPREFIX=/usr LUA_PACKAGE=lua
+	make ${makejobs} -C figtoipe
+	make ${makejobs} -C pdftoipe
 }
 
 do_install() {
-	make -C ipe*/src install IPEPREFIX=/usr LUA_PACKAGE=lua INSTALL_ROOT=${DESTDIR}
-	vbin figtoipe-20091205/figtoipe
-	vbin pdftoipe-20140303-src/pdftoipe
-	vbin svgtoipe-20131107/svgtoipe.py svgtoipe
+	make -C src install IPEPREFIX=/usr LUA_PACKAGE=lua INSTALL_ROOT=${DESTDIR}
+	vbin figtoipe/figtoipe
+	vbin pdftoipe/pdftoipe
+	vbin svgtoipe/svgtoipe.py svgtoipe
 }
 
 ipe-devel_package() {