diff --git a/srcpkgs/perl-LWP/template b/srcpkgs/perl-LWP/template
index e45c270766..f5056a674f 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/perl-LWP/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/perl-LWP/template
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ noarch=yes
 short_desc="LWP - The World-Wide Web library for Perl (libwww-perl)"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwww-perl/lib/LWP.pm"
-update_pkgname="libwww-perl"
 license="Artistic, GPL-1"
 distfiles="${CPAN_SITE}/LWP/libwww-perl-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=314d239bdcee4bce849d5c9fe5986a39b2ce12199833ffa32d73a0950531fe94
diff --git a/srcpkgs/perl-LWP/update b/srcpkgs/perl-LWP/update
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..710b907ea8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/perl-LWP/update
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pkgname="libwww-perl"