diff --git a/srcpkgs/s3cmd/template b/srcpkgs/s3cmd/template
index 0bbb8c08dc..cf7b099a38 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/s3cmd/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/s3cmd/template
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ short_desc="Command line tool for Amazon S3"
 maintainer="Eivind Uggedal <eivind@uggedal.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://s3tools.org/s3cmd"
-update_pattern='archive/v?\K[\d.]+(-rc\d)?(?=\.tar\.gz)'
 distfiles="https://github.com/s3tools/${pkgname}/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=bd909f6c14930bc70dadfbf0593e80b5ab49ff41c137bb7bda164130f776c361
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/s3cmd/update b/srcpkgs/s3cmd/update
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a36dd1db22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/s3cmd/update
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pattern='archive/v?\K[\d.]+(-rc\d)?(?=\.tar\.gz)'