diff --git a/srcpkgs/xdelta3/template b/srcpkgs/xdelta3/template
index b41e399c32a..5c938eb7382 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/xdelta3/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/xdelta3/template
@@ -9,7 +9,5 @@ short_desc="Delta/differential compression tools, VCDIFF/RFC 3284 delta compress
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://code.google.com/p/xdelta/"
-update_pkgname=xdelta
-update_pattern=$pkgname'-\K[\d.]+\d+'
 distfiles="http://xdelta.googlecode.com/files/xdelta3-${version}.tar.xz"
 checksum=3a86f29c95664fb44b8a40ff22d9bcc3e87aa8c01f0ff75931a7fa78ed3d2e55
diff --git a/srcpkgs/xdelta3/update b/srcpkgs/xdelta3/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3d26a415b07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/xdelta3/update
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+pkgname=xdelta
+pattern=$pkgname'-\K[\d.]+\d+'