diff --git a/srcpkgs/xbps-devel/template b/srcpkgs/xbps-devel/template
index 57c1661704..1528c31fba 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/xbps-devel/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/xbps-devel/template
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 pkgname=xbps-devel
 version="$(date +%Y%m%d)"
 build_style=configure
-configure_script="env LDFLAGS= ./configure"
+build_wrksrc="xbps"
+configure_script="LDFLAGS= ./configure"
 configure_args="--prefix=/ --includedir=/usr/include
 --datadir=/usr/share --mandir=/usr/share/man --with-pie
 --with-external-proplib --with-external-libfetch"
@@ -29,8 +30,8 @@ Add_dependency run libarchive
 Add_dependency run libssl
 Add_dependency run libfetch
 
+Add_dependency build git
 Add_dependency build pkg-config
-Add_dependency build mercurial
 Add_dependency build zlib-devel
 Add_dependency build proplib-devel
 Add_dependency build libarchive-devel
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ Add_dependency build libfetch-devel
 
 do_fetch()
 {
-	local url="http://xbps.googlecode.com/hg"
+	local url="git://github.com/xtraeme/xbps"
 	msg_normal " Fetching source from $url ...\n"
-	hg clone $url ${pkgname}-${version}
+	cd ${wrksrc} && git clone $url
 }