diff --git a/srcpkgs/openmpi/template b/srcpkgs/openmpi/template
index 11a8e890bba..9cd6ed3b77c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/openmpi/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/openmpi/template
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ short_desc="A High Performance Message Passing Library"
 homepage="http://www.open-mpi.org/"
 license="Custom"
 maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+update_site="${homepage}software"
+update_ignore="*rc*"
 distfiles="http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.8/downloads/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
 checksum=ab70770faf1bac15ef44301fe2186b02f857646545492dd7331404e364a7d131
 nocross=yes  # libtool -rpath /usr/lib issue