diff --git a/srcpkgs/testdisk/template b/srcpkgs/testdisk/template
index c5ff0d21fd7..8ce8c93ef20 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/testdisk/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/testdisk/template
@@ -11,7 +11,5 @@ short_desc="Powerful free data recovery software"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://www.cgsecurity.org/"
-update_site="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download"
-update_pattern=$pkgname'-\K[\d.]+(?=\.tar\.bz2)'
 distfiles="http://www.cgsecurity.org/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
 checksum=a597c3ebc375acdf0ff60f44ed8935a301132aae78ec00f64f091637d055326c
diff --git a/srcpkgs/testdisk/update b/srcpkgs/testdisk/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f8ad8298f0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/testdisk/update
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+site="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download"
+pattern=$pkgname'-\K[\d.]+(?=\.tar\.bz2)'