diff --git a/srcpkgs/pax-utils/template b/srcpkgs/pax-utils/template
index a70937a98bd..edba1d8068c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pax-utils/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pax-utils/template
@@ -9,7 +9,5 @@ short_desc="PaX aware and related utilities for ELF binaries"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://hardened.gentoo.org/pax-utils.xml"
-update_site="http://ftp.heanet.ie/disk1/gentoo-portage/app-misc/pax-utils/"
-update_pattern='pax-utils-\K[\d.]+(?=.ebuild)'
 distfiles="http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.xz"
 checksum=578801df0661b1b7b8fed0ce4a9859239f919fd37529907681e51091a1bcb4de
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pax-utils/update b/srcpkgs/pax-utils/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9a6ec7104e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/pax-utils/update
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+site="http://ftp.heanet.ie/disk1/gentoo-portage/app-misc/pax-utils/"
+pattern='pax-utils-\K[\d.]+(?=.ebuild)'