diff --git a/srcpkgs/opam/template b/srcpkgs/opam/template
index 35d82fa0f08..4c10be955ba 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/opam/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/opam/template
@@ -5,13 +5,15 @@ revision=4
 build_style=gnu-configure
 disable_parallel_build=yes
 make_build_args="lib-ext all"
+make_check_target="tests"
 makedepends="ncurses-devel ocaml curl"
 depends="curl patch unzip"
+checkdepends="${depends} git rsync"
 short_desc="OCaml package manager"
-maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
+maintainer="Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>"
 license="LGPL-3"
 homepage="http://opam.ocamlpro.com"
 distfiles="https://github.com/ocaml/${pkgname}/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=3e4a05df6ff8deecba019d885ebe902eb933acb6e2fc7784ffee1ee14871e36a
 nocross=yes
-nopie=yes
+#export OCAMLPARAM="safe-string=0,_"