diff --git a/srcpkgs/cvsps2/template b/srcpkgs/cvsps2/template
index aaaae9de7a8..66a35d3bb01 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/cvsps2/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/cvsps2/template
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ short_desc="Generating 'patchsets' from a CVS repo (for git-cvsimport)"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/"
-update_pattern='cvsps-\K[\d.]+\d+b?\d*'
-update_ignore="*b*"
 distfiles="http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/cvsps-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=91d3198b33463861a581686d5fcf99a5c484e7c4d819384c04fda9cafec1075a
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/cvsps2/update b/srcpkgs/cvsps2/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3b79ae0d54c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/cvsps2/update
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+pattern='cvsps-\K[\d.]+\d+b?\d*'
+ignore="*b*"