diff --git a/srcpkgs/sdb/template b/srcpkgs/sdb/template
index 83ecf5161d3..70b539bd6bb 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/sdb/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/sdb/template
@@ -6,18 +6,21 @@ short_desc="Simple key-value database with JSON support"
 maintainer="pancake <pancake@nopcode.org>"
 license="LGPL-3"
 homepage="https://github.com/radare/sdb"
-distfiles="https://github.com/radare/sdb/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=ba283a42af4e6ab679ee445bba62cf8620ca28315ca11678926a9229625be1f0
 long_desc="
  sdb is a simple key/value database with disk storage. mcsdbd is a memcache
  server with disk storage based on sdb. sdbtypes is a vala library that
  implements several data structures on top of an sdb or memcache instance."
 
-create_srcdir=yes
+nofetch=yes
+noextract=yes
 build_style=gnu-makefile
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
 makedepends="libglib-devel vala-devel"
 
+do_fetch() {
+	git clone -b ${version} git://github.com/radare/sdb.git sdb-${version}
+}
+
 sdb-devel_package() {
 	depends="sdb>=${version}"
 	short_desc+=" - development files"