diff --git a/srcpkgs/oracle-jre/template b/srcpkgs/oracle-jre/template
index af0bf700aea..3bb8b6ecb5f 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/oracle-jre/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/oracle-jre/template
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ depends="hicolor-icon-theme desktop-file-utils xdg-utils shared-mime-info wget"
 hostmakedepends="wget"
 provides="java-runtime-${version}_1"
 replaces="java-runtime>=0"
-update_pattern=">Java SE \K[^<]+(?=<)"
 
 case "${XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE}" in
 x86_64)
diff --git a/srcpkgs/oracle-jre/update b/srcpkgs/oracle-jre/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0b8e88c7cb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/oracle-jre/update
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pattern=">Java SE \K[^<]+(?=<)"