diff --git a/srcpkgs/libgit2/template b/srcpkgs/libgit2/template
index f42c2055160..c08509fbec1 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libgit2/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libgit2/template
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ makedepends="zlib-devel libressl-devel>=2.1.2"
 short_desc="The Git linkable library"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://libgit2.github.com/"
-update_site="https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/tags"
-update_pattern='archive/v?\K[\d.]+(?=\.tar\.gz)'
 license="GPL-2 with Linking Exception"
 
 do_fetch() {
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libgit2/update b/srcpkgs/libgit2/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..537536a15c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libgit2/update
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+site="https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/tags"
+pattern='archive/v?\K[\d.]+(?=\.tar\.gz)'