diff --git a/srcpkgs/spawn-fcgi/template b/srcpkgs/spawn-fcgi/template
index 6dcf5b6a6c7..13c2f8995b2 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/spawn-fcgi/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/spawn-fcgi/template
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ short_desc="Spawn FastCGI applications"
 maintainer="Eivind Uggedal <eivind@uggedal.com>"
 license="BSD"
 homepage="http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/spawn-fcgi/"
-update_site="$homepage/news"
 distfiles="http://www.lighttpd.net/download/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.bz2"
 checksum=a3cfc7c9581b6ddc31084b379c9160323fa345d357ace6cd2d3d3af3593e2873
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/spawn-fcgi/update b/srcpkgs/spawn-fcgi/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c468002ece7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/spawn-fcgi/update
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+site="$homepage/news"