diff --git a/srcpkgs/pixz/template b/srcpkgs/pixz/template
index b5d3881a409..48431c21c10 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pixz/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pixz/template
@@ -8,10 +8,9 @@ short_desc="A parallel, indexing version of XZ"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 license="2-clause-BSD"
 homepage="https://github.com/vasi/pixz"
+distfiles="https://github.com/vasi/pixz/archive/v$version.tar.gz"
+checksum=38bbb3a8b407bcaeadb5473f44acc38c6bf6ecd92171b231d71029a593646c88
 
-do_fetch() {
-	git clone -b v${version} git://github.com/vasi/pixz pixz-${version}
-}
 do_build() {
 	make CC="$CC" CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" LDFLAGS="-lm $LDFLAGS" ${makejobs}
 	a2x -f manpage pixz.1.asciidoc