diff --git a/srcpkgs/fox/template b/srcpkgs/fox/template
index b327fc4b490..50de94920a4 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/fox/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/fox/template
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ makedepends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel libXcursor-devel libXft-devel libXrandr-deve
 short_desc="Free Objects for X: GUI Toolkit for C++"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 homepage="http://www.fox-toolkit.org/"
-update_ignore="?.[13579].* doc*"
 license="LGPL-2.1, MIT"
 distfiles="http://ftp.fox-toolkit.org/pub/fox-$version.tar.gz"
 checksum=342c751d2a7edab136ad26cb4483329da3c16c7abf2f283f318d666ef12d0887
diff --git a/srcpkgs/fox/update b/srcpkgs/fox/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..57f298b2cf2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/fox/update
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ignore="?.[13579].* doc*"