diff --git a/srcpkgs/neverball/template b/srcpkgs/neverball/template
index a65a0d63d2..e0691c2cb5 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/neverball/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/neverball/template
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ homepage="http://www.neverball.org"
 license="GPL-2"
 distfiles="http://www.neverball.org/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
 checksum=73fe63cca4f96e2d355480d03bc0b2904e83a0abdf65fe8c52db5cc3cca88fa0
-update_site="$homepage/download.php"
 
 do_build() {
 	make ${makejobs} ENABLE_NLS=1 DATADIR=/usr/share/neverball LOCALEDIR=/usr/share/locale
diff --git a/srcpkgs/neverball/update b/srcpkgs/neverball/update
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1cdc75537d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/neverball/update
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+site="$homepage/download.php"