diff --git a/srcpkgs/libyaml/template b/srcpkgs/libyaml/template
index 6150f4c36e7..caf91b7b900 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libyaml/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libyaml/template
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ short_desc="Fast YAML 1.1 parser and emitter library"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 license="MIT"
 homepage="http://pyyaml.org/wiki/LibYAML"
+update_pkgname=yaml
 distfiles="http://pyyaml.org/download/libyaml/yaml-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=7da6971b4bd08a986dd2a61353bc422362bd0edcc67d7ebaac68c95f74182749