diff --git a/srcpkgs/tp_smapi-dkms/template b/srcpkgs/tp_smapi-dkms/template
index 0f327f2793a..0ee5f06cdea 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/tp_smapi-dkms/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/tp_smapi-dkms/template
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi"
 distfiles="https://github.com/x539/tp_smapi/archive/master.tar.gz"
-update_pattern='tp-smapi/\K[\d.]+'
 checksum=7e4519e4f3acb42d84f9cca1cbb070b4c69ef150277fb6511d2124f4033380ba
 
 triggers="dkms"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/tp_smapi-dkms/update b/srcpkgs/tp_smapi-dkms/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..db5dd385ec3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/tp_smapi-dkms/update
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pattern='tp-smapi/\K[\d.]+'