diff --git a/srcpkgs/fuse-usmb/template b/srcpkgs/fuse-usmb/template
index 346df062ca3..cbc6edf9afc 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/fuse-usmb/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/fuse-usmb/template
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ short_desc="FUSE filesystem for SMB/CIFS shares"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-3"
 homepage="http://ametros.net/code.html#usmb"
-update_site="http://repo.or.cz/w/usmb.git"
-update_pattern='tags/\K[\d]+'
 
 do_fetch() {
 	git clone -b${version} git://repo.or.cz/usmb.git ${pkgname}-${version}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/fuse-usmb/update b/srcpkgs/fuse-usmb/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4082c7dc009
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/fuse-usmb/update
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+site="http://repo.or.cz/w/usmb.git"
+pattern='tags/\K[\d]+'