diff --git a/srcpkgs/void-mklive/template b/srcpkgs/void-mklive/template
index cb918e0a7ca..c8aa15412a3 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/void-mklive/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/void-mklive/template
@@ -1,18 +1,25 @@
 # Template file for 'void-mklive'
 pkgname=void-mklive
-version=0.9.7
+version="$(date -u +%Y%m%d)"
 revision=1
-build_style=gnu-makefile
 noarch=yes
+nofetch=yes
+noextract=yes
+build_style=gnu-makefile
 depends="dracut>=019 cdrtools squashfs-tools syslinux>=4.05_2"
+makedepends="git"
 replaces="vmklive>=0"
 short_desc="The Void Linux live image maker"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 license="Simplified BSD"
 homepage="https://voidlinux.github.com/"
-distfiles="https://github.com/downloads/voidlinux/$pkgname/$pkgname-$version.tar.xz"
-checksum=a562feadf1d4bc47b72908f7950211cfd0a4efe408da05da1aa7e9714d0ed965
 long_desc="
  This is a simple shell script to build a live image for the
  Void linux distribution. The images contain the void-installer package
  to be able to install Void linux to storage disks."
+
+do_fetch() {
+	local url="git://github.com/voidlinux/void-mklive"
+	msg_normal "Fetching source from $url ...\n"
+	git clone ${url} ${pkgname}-${version}
+}