diff --git a/srcpkgs/gbdfed/template b/srcpkgs/gbdfed/template
index 451ac1a5b0..e903390d22 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gbdfed/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gbdfed/template
@@ -10,5 +10,6 @@ short_desc="A GTK2 bitmap font editor"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://www.math.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/Software/gbdfed/"
+update_ignore="16"
 distfiles="http://www.math.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/Software/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${version}.tbz2>${pkgname}-${version}.tar.bz2"
 checksum=5db25d4ce688dcb188dee056e58614a94a5e4fce4b6066fbb310951ab999093c
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gprolog/template b/srcpkgs/gprolog/template
index 7c56341d71..31e62daad1 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gprolog/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gprolog/template
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ short_desc="GNU Prolog"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2,LGPL-3"
 homepage="http://www.gprolog.org/"
+update_ignore="*.pkg"
 distfiles="${GNU_SITE}/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=18c0e9644b33afd4dd3cdf29f94c099ad820d65e0c99da5495b1ae43b4f2b18e
 disable_parallel_build=yes
diff --git a/srcpkgs/id3lib/template b/srcpkgs/id3lib/template
index 8eecf34d4f..a625793b13 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/id3lib/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/id3lib/template
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ short_desc="Library for reading, writing, and manipulating ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="LGPL-3"
 homepage="http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/"
+update_ignore="*binaries 305 2000*"
 distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/$pkgname/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
 checksum=2749cc3c0cd7280b299518b1ddf5a5bcfe2d1100614519b68702230e26c7d079
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/linux-lts/template b/srcpkgs/linux-lts/template
index 7e3a58dd03..8671ab06de 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/linux-lts/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/linux-lts/template
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ short_desc="Linux LTS (Long Term Support) kernel meta package"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="Public domain"
 only_for_archs="i686 x86_64"
+update_site="https://www.kernel.org/feeds/kdist.xml"
+update_pattern="<title>\K\d+.\d+(?=.[\d]+: longterm</title>)"
 
 case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
 	i686*|x86_64*)
diff --git a/srcpkgs/lzop/template b/srcpkgs/lzop/template
index c7d294de95..e4f70c95bd 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/lzop/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/lzop/template
@@ -8,5 +8,6 @@ short_desc="File compressor using LZO"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://www.lzop.org/"
+update_ignore="10??"
 distfiles="http://www.lzop.org/download/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
 checksum=c1425b8c77d49f5a679d5a126c90ea6ad99585a55e335a613cae59e909dbb2c9
diff --git a/srcpkgs/sox/template b/srcpkgs/sox/template
index bb25cf9090..a7422870eb 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/sox/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/sox/template
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ short_desc="Sound eXchange, the Swiss Army knife of audio manipulation"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-3"
 homepage="http://sox.sourceforge.net/"
+update_ignore="121*"
 distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.bz2"
 checksum=2cb40527f6957f2de27aea39fb5da3dda4ddf4aaef22812d643f40623dec0e40
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/tp_smapi-dkms/template b/srcpkgs/tp_smapi-dkms/template
index 0ee5f06cde..0f327f2793 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/tp_smapi-dkms/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/tp_smapi-dkms/template
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi"
 distfiles="https://github.com/x539/tp_smapi/archive/master.tar.gz"
+update_pattern='tp-smapi/\K[\d.]+'
 checksum=7e4519e4f3acb42d84f9cca1cbb070b4c69ef150277fb6511d2124f4033380ba
 
 triggers="dkms"