diff --git a/srcpkgs/plib/template b/srcpkgs/plib/template
index d8a3ceb8ed1..f172ab2a377 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/plib/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/plib/template
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ short_desc="Suite of Portable Game Libraries"
 maintainer="Enno Boland <eb@s01.de>"
 license="LGPL-2"
 homepage="http://plib.sourceforge.net"
-update_site="${homepage}/download.html"
 distfiles="http://plib.sourceforge.net/dist/plib-1.8.5.tar.gz"
 makedepends="MesaLib-devel libX11-devel libXi-devel libXmu-devel"
 hostmakedepends="autoconf automake libtool"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/plib/update b/srcpkgs/plib/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8ccb8634423
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/plib/update
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+site="${homepage}/download.html"