diff --git a/srcpkgs/minetest/template b/srcpkgs/minetest/template
index 85effa719f..bb99a57b4d 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/minetest/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/minetest/template
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ short_desc="An InfiniMiner/Minecraft inspired game"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 license="LGPL-2.1"
 homepage="http://www.minetest.org"
-update_site="https://github.com/minetest/minetest/tags"
-update_pattern='archive/\K[\d.]+(?=\.tar\.gz)'
 hostmakedepends="cmake pkg-config git"
 makedepends="
  sqlite-devel libcurl-devel lua-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel libpng-devel
diff --git a/srcpkgs/minetest/update b/srcpkgs/minetest/update
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b43b0d98dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/minetest/update
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+site="https://github.com/minetest/minetest/tags"
+pattern='archive/\K[\d.]+(?=\.tar\.gz)'