diff --git a/srcpkgs/MoinMoin/template b/srcpkgs/MoinMoin/template
index 172480b4af..738096c3b2 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/MoinMoin/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/MoinMoin/template
@@ -13,7 +13,5 @@ short_desc="MoinMoin, a Python clone of WikiWiki"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://moinmo.in"
 license="GPL-2"
-update_site="${homepage}/MoinMoinDownload"
-update_pkgname=moin
 distfiles="http://static.moinmo.in/files/moin-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=a74ba7fd8cf09b9e8415a4c45d7389ea910c09932da50359ea9796e3a30911a6
diff --git a/srcpkgs/MoinMoin/update b/srcpkgs/MoinMoin/update
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cf0d1feb57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/MoinMoin/update
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+site="${homepage}/MoinMoinDownload"
+pkgname=moin