diff --git a/srcpkgs/geoipupdate/template b/srcpkgs/geoipupdate/template
index 5ccf7c7a95e..d54067bfb28 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/geoipupdate/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/geoipupdate/template
@@ -1,20 +1,29 @@
 # Template file for 'geoipupdate'
 pkgname=geoipupdate
-version=3.1.1
+version=7.0.1
 revision=1
-build_style=gnu-configure
-configure_args="--mandir=/usr/share/man --sysconfdir=/etc/geoip"
-hostmakedepends="automake libtool"
-makedepends="zlib-devel libcurl-devel"
+build_style=go
+go_import_path="github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate/v7"
+go_package="${go_import_path}/cmd/geoipupdate"
+go_ldflags="-X main.version=$version -X main.defaultConfigFile=/etc/geoip/GeoIP.conf
+ -X main.defaultDatabaseDirectory=/usr/share/GeoIP"
+hostmakedepends="perl pandoc"
 short_desc="GeoIP update client code"
 maintainer="Enno Boland <gottox@voidlinux.org>"
-license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
+license="Apache-2.0 OR MIT"
 homepage="https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate"
-changelog="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maxmind/geoipupdate/master/ChangeLog.md"
-distfiles="https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate/releases/download/v${version}/geoipupdate-${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=3de22e3fe3282024288a00807bbea9a1ffa2d1e8fe9c611f4b14a5b4d8ebe08a
+changelog="https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate/raw/main/CHANGELOG.md"
+distfiles="https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate/archive/refs/tags/v${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=59c80ab737f128fc05e4ecdec4d84652182851dc8c8bea892022e3fc12db9101
 conf_files="/etc/geoip/GeoIP.conf"
 
-pre_configure() {
-	autoreconf -fi
+post_build() {
+	make data CONFFILE=/etc/geoip/GeoIP.conf DATADIR=/usr/share/GeoIP VERSION="$version"
+}
+
+post_install() {
+	vinstall build/GeoIP.conf 644 /etc/geoip
+	vman build/geoipupdate.1
+	vman build/GeoIP.conf.5
+	vlicense LICENSE-MIT
 }