diff --git a/srcpkgs/acpica-utils/template b/srcpkgs/acpica-utils/template
index 88ffce9b2ff..a76836fe7c6 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/acpica-utils/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/acpica-utils/template
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ short_desc="Intel ACPI CA Unix utilities"
 homepage="https://www.acpica.org/"
 license="GPL-2"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
-update_site="https://acpica.org/downloads"
-update_pkgname="acpica-unix"
 distfiles="http://acpica.org/sites/acpica/files/acpica-unix-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=f2f72e4f4d1eb40a7d5bf23512e3733b15e708ede40ed362d0fb563a5e8d64cc
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/acpica-utils/update b/srcpkgs/acpica-utils/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..499e40b9211
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/acpica-utils/update
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+site="https://acpica.org/downloads"
+pkgname="acpica-unix"