diff --git a/srcpkgs/LuaJIT/template b/srcpkgs/LuaJIT/template
index 5e825e81a23..ebc5be103fb 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/LuaJIT/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/LuaJIT/template
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ short_desc="A Just-In-Time Compiler for Lua"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://www.luajit.org"
 license="MIT"
-update_site="http://luajit.org/download.html"
 distfiles="http://luajit.org/download/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
 checksum=55be6cb2d101ed38acca32c5b1f99ae345904b365b642203194c585d27bebd79
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/LuaJIT/update b/srcpkgs/LuaJIT/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..15613910677
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/LuaJIT/update
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+site="http://luajit.org/download.html"