diff --git a/srcpkgs/cjs/template b/srcpkgs/cjs/template
index 5b8f299bb0..4e61b14a1b 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/cjs/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/cjs/template
@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ makedepends="js-devel dbus-glib-devel readline-devel>=6.3"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-3"
 homepage="http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/"
-update_site="https://api.github.com/repos/linuxmint/$pkgname/tags"
-update_pattern='"name":\s*"\K[^\d]*([\d\.]+)(?=")'
 
 do_fetch() {
 	git clone -b ${version} git://github.com/linuxmint/${pkgname} ${pkgname}-${version}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/cjs/update b/srcpkgs/cjs/update
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..97b9b492e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/cjs/update
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+site="https://api.github.com/repos/linuxmint/$pkgname/tags"
+pattern='"name":\s*"\K[^\d]*([\d\.]+)(?=")'