diff --git a/srcpkgs/bzip2/template b/srcpkgs/bzip2/template
index 407d26fe717..a8f6a56c7ec 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/bzip2/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/bzip2/template
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ revision=9
 bootstrap=yes
 replaces="chroot-bzip2>=0"
 homepage="http://www.bzip.org"
-update_site="http://www.bzip.org/downloads.html"
 distfiles="http://www.bzip.org/$version/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
 short_desc="The bzip2 compression library"
 license="BSD"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/bzip2/update b/srcpkgs/bzip2/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..de9a4df918c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/bzip2/update
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+site="http://www.bzip.org/downloads.html"