diff --git a/srcpkgs/gummiboot/template b/srcpkgs/gummiboot/template
index ae2eeeca2d..0719eb0f14 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gummiboot/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gummiboot/template
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ short_desc="Simple UEFI Boot Manager"
 maintainer="Eivind Uggedal <eivind@uggedal.com>"
 license="LGPL-2.1"
 homepage="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/gummiboot"
-update_site="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/${pkgname}"
-update_pattern='/gummiboot/tag/\?id=\K\d+'
 distfiles="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/${pkgname}/snapshot/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=78f47105bab676b8ff2d19c1deedaa4c371f10e4fd49059f9d588c6f97544a9b
 only_for_archs="i686 x86_64"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gummiboot/update b/srcpkgs/gummiboot/update
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..61954e94ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gummiboot/update
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+site="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/${pkgname}"
+pattern='/gummiboot/tag/\?id=\K\d+'