diff --git a/srcpkgs/pari-elldata-small b/srcpkgs/pari-elldata-small
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..b202971d614
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/pari-elldata-small
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pari-elldata
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pari-elldata/template b/srcpkgs/pari-elldata/template
index 8bbe310b1e3..12e0d21dc7e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pari-elldata/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pari-elldata/template
@@ -1,17 +1,32 @@
 # Template file for 'pari-elldata'
 pkgname=pari-elldata
-version=20190912
+version=20210301
 revision=1
 create_wrksrc=yes
-depends="pari"
+depends="pari-elldata-small"
 short_desc="PARI/GP version of J. E. Cremona Elliptic Curve Data"
-maintainer="André Cerqueira <acerqueira021@gmail.com>"
-license="GPL-3.0-or-later"
-homepage="http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/"
-distfiles="http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/packages/elldata.tgz"
-checksum=c5757bbeba779fbf4c69718bccbe039fd98159bf2c8d13017284cf8b5a10ddc4
+maintainer="Gonzalo Tornaría <tornaria@cmat.edu.uy>"
+license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
+homepage="https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/packages.html"
+distfiles="https://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/packages/${pkgname#pari-}.tgz>${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=dd551e64932d4ab27b3f2b2d1da871c2353672fc1a74705c52e3c0de84bd0cf6
+
+do_build() {
+	# compressed data files work ok (install-size: 156M -> 57M)
+	find data -type f -size +4k -print0 | xargs -0 gzip -9
+}
 
 do_install() {
- vmkdir usr/share/pari
- vcopy data/elldata usr/share/pari
+	vmkdir usr/share/pari
+	vcopy "data/*" usr/share/pari
+}
+
+pari-elldata-small_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - conductors up to 20000"
+	pkg_install() {
+		# a reasonable small subset (1.8M)
+		vmove "usr/share/pari/elldata/ell?.gz"
+		vmove "usr/share/pari/elldata/ell1?.gz"
+		vmove usr/share/pari/elldata/README
+	}
 }
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pari-elldata/update b/srcpkgs/pari-elldata/update
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bea0b3258ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/pari-elldata/update
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+site="http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/packages/"
+pattern="href=\"${pkgname#pari-}.t(ar|gz)\".*\K\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\d(?= \d\d:\d\d )"
+version=${version:0:4}.${version:4:2}.${version:6:2}