diff --git a/srcpkgs/emacs-ess/template b/srcpkgs/emacs-ess/template
index 9ecd71494d3..6a5bdae7da5 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/emacs-ess/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/emacs-ess/template
@@ -1,24 +1,24 @@
 # Template file for 'emacs-ess'
 pkgname=emacs-ess
-version=16.10
+version=17.11
 revision=1
 noarch=yes
 depends="emacs R"
-makedepends="emacs"
+makedepends="emacs perl"
 short_desc="Emacs Speaks Statistics: A Universal Interface for Statistical Analysis"
 maintainer="Florian Wagner <florian@wagner-flo.net>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://ess.r-project.org"
-_juliarev=edaaff2e971a527460f838bebc0ef679f9a571b0
+_juliarev=2ef6992125a85674532a1e37dacd5c60bee4feeb
 _juliafile=julia-mode-${_juliarev}.el.txt
 distfiles="http://ess.r-project.org/downloads/ess/ess-${version}.tgz
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JuliaEditorSupport/julia-emacs/${_juliarev}/julia-mode.el>${_juliafile}"
-checksum="535e011c56108399aadd174fd63491c4d4d5ebd1522e310fdd02523f2ea7a812
- 815337acc627cf8d3c6804b186ccaa68ce2b6865bcfd158b68aa1dcd1d9b29ad"
+checksum="484773fcfa2463fbbb9470cbdcf8e628500ca6cf97fb751ac72eed198d5fa715
+ d0f7cf7e5ef5ede8a79ac72bffb0618414c2d60853646168532afe1757a21b2c"
 wrksrc=ess-${version}
 
 do_build() {
-	cp ${XBPS_SRCDISTDIR}/${pkgname}-${version}/${_juliafile} lisp/julia-mode.el
+	cp -f ${XBPS_SRCDISTDIR}/${pkgname}-${version}/${_juliafile} lisp/julia-mode.el
 	make prefix=/usr
 }
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/emacs-ess/update b/srcpkgs/emacs-ess/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0aaaf9b0832
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/emacs-ess/update
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pkgname=ess