diff --git a/srcpkgs/opam/template b/srcpkgs/opam/template
index 75f69f40e4e..616eefc7a24 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/opam/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/opam/template
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
 # Template file for 'opam'
 pkgname=opam
-version=2.3.0
-revision=2
+version=2.4.0
+revision=1
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--docdir=/usr/share/doc/${pkgname} --with-vendored-deps --with-mccs"
 make_build_args="all"
 make_check_target="tests"
-makedepends="curl ncurses-devel ocaml ocaml-findlib tar"
-depends="bubblewrap curl patch unzip"
+depends="bubblewrap curl unzip tar"
+makedepends="${depends} ncurses-devel ocaml ocaml-findlib"
 checkdepends="${depends} git rsync"
 short_desc="OCaml package manager"
 maintainer="Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>"
 license="LGPL-2.1-only WITH OCaml-LGPL-linking-exception"
 homepage="https://opam.ocaml.org/"
-distfiles="https://github.com/ocaml/opam/archive/refs/tags/${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=ee3e3c93c4420bd3e3be82dd0da40d7f3f82eaff5000d20fb1b00f1cd050a99a
+distfiles="https://github.com/ocaml/opam/releases/download/${version}/opam-full-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=119f41efb1192dad35f447fbf1c6202ffc331105e949d2980a75df8cb2c93282
 nocross=yes
 disable_parallel_build=yes
 make_check=ci-skip # uses bwrap