diff --git a/srcpkgs/ranger/template b/srcpkgs/ranger/template
index f7b55488b11..3fdab1602da 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/ranger/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/ranger/template
@@ -12,6 +12,5 @@ short_desc="File manager with an ncurses frontend written in Python"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-3"
 homepage="http://ranger.nongnu.org"
-update_site="${homepage}/download.html"
 distfiles="http://ranger.nongnu.org/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=ccb230a5d2d71ca11612b5af1ca515f9d490b51b1546678828e306252677db5e
diff --git a/srcpkgs/ranger/update b/srcpkgs/ranger/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8ccb8634423
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/ranger/update
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+site="${homepage}/download.html"