diff --git a/srcpkgs/hwids/template b/srcpkgs/hwids/template
index 8d158781491..586cfb2ea4c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/hwids/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/hwids/template
@@ -1,18 +1,16 @@
 # Template file for 'hwids'
 pkgname=hwids
-version=20150129
+version=20150421
 revision=1
 noarch=yes
-create_wrksrc=yes
-hostmakedepends="git"
+wrksrc="hwids-hwids-${version}"
 short_desc="Hardware Identification Databases"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@voidlinux.eu>"
 homepage="https://github.com/gentoo/hwids"
 license="GPL-2"
+distfiles="https://github.com/gentoo/hwids/archive/hwids-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=2c3ced90c069392f1f6ccdf7a8541ea2c3d871c575b8b6b02129e62bcec6f6a4
 
-do_fetch() {
-	git clone -b hwids-${version} git://github.com/gentoo/hwids hwids-${version}
-}
 do_install() {
 	vmkdir usr/share/hwdata
 	install -m644 *.ids ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/hwdata