diff --git a/srcpkgs/gst-plugins-base/template b/srcpkgs/gst-plugins-base/template
index f471f6c2ed2..7ac43fb6f79 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gst-plugins-base/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gst-plugins-base/template
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ makedepends="alsa-lib-devel gstreamer-devel libgudev-devel libtheora-devel
 short_desc="GStreamer Base Plug-ins"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/"
-update_ignore="1.*"
 license="GPL-2, LGPL-2.1"
 distfiles="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/$pkgname/$pkgname-$version.tar.xz"
 checksum=1fe45c3894903001d4d008b0713dab089f53726dcb5842d5b40c2595a984e64a
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gst-plugins-base/update b/srcpkgs/gst-plugins-base/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..923fcac1f4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gst-plugins-base/update
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ignore="1.*"