diff --git a/srcpkgs/gummiboot/template b/srcpkgs/gummiboot/template
index a75e53d379a..e418fdb8b99 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gummiboot/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gummiboot/template
@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@ hostmakedepends="automake pkg-config libxslt docbook-xsl"
 makedepends="gnu-efi-libs liblzma-devel libblkid-devel"
 short_desc="Simple UEFI Boot Manager"
 maintainer="Eivind Uggedal <eivind@uggedal.com>"
-homepage="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/gummiboot"
 license="LGPL-2.1"
+homepage="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/gummiboot"
+update_site="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/${pkgname}"
+update_pattern='/gummiboot/tag/\?id=\K\d+'
 distfiles="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/${pkgname}/snapshot/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=78f47105bab676b8ff2d19c1deedaa4c371f10e4fd49059f9d588c6f97544a9b
 only_for_archs="i686 x86_64"