diff --git a/srcpkgs/libreadline8/template b/srcpkgs/libreadline8/template
index 6200195be9e..c351f0db6e2 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libreadline8/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libreadline8/template
@@ -14,22 +14,19 @@ maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"
 license="GPL-3.0-or-later"
 homepage="https://tiswww.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html"
 distfiles="${GNU_SITE}/readline/readline-${_dist_ver}.tar.gz"
-checksum=e339f51971478d369f8a053a330a190781acb9864cf4c541060f12078948e461
 
-pre_configure() {
-	local url="${GNU_SITE}/readline/readline-${_dist_ver}-patches"
+_url="${GNU_SITE}/readline/readline-${_dist_ver}-patches"
+for _p in $(seq -w 001 ${_patch_ver}); do
+	distfiles+=" ${_url}/readline${_dist_ver/./}-${_p}"
+	skip_extraction+=" readline${_dist_ver/./}-${_p}"
+done
+unset _url
+unset _p
 
-	cd ${XBPS_SRCDISTDIR}/${pkgname}-${version}
-	if [ "${_patch_ver}" -gt 000 ]; then
-		for p in $(seq -w 001 ${_patch_ver}); do
-			if [ -f readline${version/./}-${p} ]; then
-				continue
-			fi
-			local patch_url="${url}/readline${_dist_ver/./}-${p}"
-			msg_normal " Fetching ${patch_url} ...\n"
-			$XBPS_FETCH_CMD "${patch_url}"
-		done
-	fi
+checksum="e339f51971478d369f8a053a330a190781acb9864cf4c541060f12078948e461
+ d8e5e98933cf5756f862243c0601cb69d3667bb33f2c7b751fe4e40b2c3fd069"
+
+post_patch() {
 	cd ${wrksrc}
 	for p in $(seq -w 001 ${_patch_ver}); do
 		patch -s -Np0 -i ${XBPS_SRCDISTDIR}/${pkgname}-${version}/readline${_dist_ver/./}-${p}