diff --git a/srcpkgs/openmpi/template b/srcpkgs/openmpi/template
index 7a2c8ff2491..5bd66a4493d 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/openmpi/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/openmpi/template
@@ -14,8 +14,6 @@ short_desc="A High Performance Message Passing Library"
 homepage="http://www.open-mpi.org/"
 license="Custom"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
-update_site="${homepage}software"
-update_ignore="*rc*"
 distfiles="http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.8/downloads/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
 checksum=23158d916e92c80e2924016b746a93913ba7fae9fff51bf68d5c2a0ae39a2f8a
 nocross=yes  # libtool -rpath /usr/lib issue
diff --git a/srcpkgs/openmpi/update b/srcpkgs/openmpi/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..18b7fb5deeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/openmpi/update
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+site="${homepage}software"
+ignore="*rc*"