diff --git a/srcpkgs/libosmocore/template b/srcpkgs/libosmocore/template
index 1d805170455..72053bdb0cd 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libosmocore/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libosmocore/template
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ maintainer="Enno Boland <eb@s01.de>"
 license="GPL"
 hostmakedepends="autoconf automake libtool git"
 homepage="http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/libosmocore"
-update_site="http://cgit.osmocom.org/libosmocore/"
 _giturl=git://git.osmocom.org/libosmocore.git
 
 configure_args="--prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --datadir=/usr/share \
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libosmocore/update b/srcpkgs/libosmocore/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..852cb35f22e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libosmocore/update
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+site="http://cgit.osmocom.org/libosmocore/"