diff --git a/srcpkgs/aspell-de/template b/srcpkgs/aspell-de/template
index 82e4768add2..6c5f9706ebf 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/aspell-de/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/aspell-de/template
@@ -11,5 +11,6 @@ short_desc="German dictionary for aspell"
 homepage="http://aspell.net/"
 license="GPL-2"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
+update_pattern='aspell6-de-\K[\d.]+\d+'
 distfiles="${GNU_SITE}/aspell/dict/de/aspell6-de-${version}-1.tar.bz2"
 checksum=ba6c94e11bc2e0e6e43ce0f7822c5bba5ca5ac77129ef90c190b33632416e906
diff --git a/srcpkgs/audacity/template b/srcpkgs/audacity/template
index 6295325b9b9..c79b014079e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/audacity/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/audacity/template
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ short_desc="Graphical cross-platform audio editor"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/"
+update_site="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/source"
+update_pattern='audacity-minsrc-\K[\d.]+\d+'
 distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/$pkgname/$pkgname-minsrc-$version.tar.xz"
 checksum=3080c190e678e0d682961a36c6e990c572dacd6b5ce499e5cec7362e9fa37d7b
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/bam/template b/srcpkgs/bam/template
index 0bad1f7fec0..17a76121db9 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/bam/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/bam/template
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ short_desc="A fast and flexible build system using Lua"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="custom"
 homepage="http://github.com/matricks/bam"
+update_site="http://matricks.github.io/bam/"
+update_pattern='bam-\K[\d.]+\d+'
 distfiles="https://github.com/downloads/matricks/bam/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=5e4e4920b4d265da582f66774e9b1ec8ddfbe75ddc028fba86c12f686ea18db3
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/cpuburn/template b/srcpkgs/cpuburn/template
index 0134ff9e323..76754063327 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/cpuburn/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/cpuburn/template
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ short_desc="Collection of programs to put heavy load on CPU"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cpuburn/"
+update_site="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cpuburn/"
+update_pattern='cpuburn/\K[\d.]+\d+'
 distfiles="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/${pkgname}_${version}.orig.tar.gz"
 checksum=eb191ce9bfbf453d30c218c3419573df102a3588f96c4a43686c84bb9da4bed6
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/cvsps2/template b/srcpkgs/cvsps2/template
index 2ef6c72b12d..1ebf41714e1 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/cvsps2/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/cvsps2/template
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ short_desc="Generating 'patchsets' from a CVS repo (for git-cvsimport)"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/"
+update_pattern='cvsps-\K[\d.]+\d+b?\d*'
+update_ignore="*b*"
 distfiles="http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/cvsps-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=91d3198b33463861a581686d5fcf99a5c484e7c4d819384c04fda9cafec1075a
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/erlang/template b/srcpkgs/erlang/template
index d5b40ef7f0a..8dd8ad509cc 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/erlang/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/erlang/template
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ short_desc="Concurrent functional programming language developed by Ericsson"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="custom"
 homepage="http://www.erlang.org/"
+update_site="http://www.erlang.org/download.html"
+update_pattern='otp_src_\K[\d.]+\d+'
 distfiles="http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_${version}.tar.gz
  http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_doc_man_${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum="d4be03eb346016f4ca95d53eb9437ffaa6106762f153620dd98cd7f7733b76e4
diff --git a/srcpkgs/fingerprint-gui/template b/srcpkgs/fingerprint-gui/template
index 946967a6272..dd8bb8991f0 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/fingerprint-gui/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/fingerprint-gui/template
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ short_desc="Fingerprint management GUI"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://www.ullrich-online.cc/fingerprint/"
+update_site="http://www.ullrich-online.cc/fingerprint/downloads.php"
 distfiles="http://www.ullrich-online.cc/fingerprint/download/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=f5021d4c446b65ce62de63b9b2874b05a62318b386f35577ca0322b722a1920f
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/fvwm/template b/srcpkgs/fvwm/template
index 1d0843ac710..6b4ced9a4f8 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/fvwm/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/fvwm/template
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ short_desc="An extremely powerful ICCCM-compliant window manager"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2,custom"
 homepage="http://fvwm.org/"
+update_ignore="2.7.0"
 distfiles="ftp://ftp.fvwm.org/pub/fvwm/version-${version%%.*}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.bz2"
 checksum=21549995c53906be5533746a1cf61b1ecf8dd8ef6816a0b20615d45ff78b48cf
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/ghc-bin/template b/srcpkgs/ghc-bin/template
index 2156989c465..ead8f68f62b 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/ghc-bin/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/ghc-bin/template
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ short_desc="Glorious Haskell Compiler - precompiled binaries"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="custom"
 homepage="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/"
+update_pattern='ghc-bin-\K[\d.]+\d+'
 only_for_archs="i686 x86_64"
 case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
     x86_64*)
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gnubg/template b/srcpkgs/gnubg/template
index 095f0107b8b..2a1b40d83e4 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gnubg/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gnubg/template
@@ -9,5 +9,7 @@ short_desc="GNU Backgammon game"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-3"
 homepage="http://www.gnubg.org"
+update_site="http://www.gnubg.org/index.php?itemid=22"
+update_pattern='gnubg-release-\K[\d.]+\d+'
 distfiles="http://www.gnubg.org/media/sources/$pkgname-release-$version-sources.tar.gz"
 checksum=609f66323dd20fcaa2e1f889b70f8453b5c53999a8c5afda971c131bcfa0e4f0
diff --git a/srcpkgs/ipe/template b/srcpkgs/ipe/template
index b542005acb9..64df7d644d5 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/ipe/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/ipe/template
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ short_desc="Drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or EPS formats"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-3,GPL-2"
 homepage="http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/"
+update_site="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipe7/rss?limit=200"
 distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/ipe7/${pkgname}/7.1/${pkgname}-${version}-src.tar.gz
  ${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/ipe7/tools/figtoipe-20091205.tar.gz
  ${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/ipe7/tools/pdftoipe-20140303-src.tar.gz
diff --git a/srcpkgs/iperf/template b/srcpkgs/iperf/template
index f2fbeea5a95..2135c4aa1a4 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/iperf/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/iperf/template
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ short_desc="Perform network throughput tests"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="custom"
 homepage="http://iperf.sourceforge.net"
+update_pattern='iperf-\K[\d.]+\d+'
 distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=636b4eff0431cea80667ea85a67ce4c68698760a9837e1e9d13096d20362265b
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/jq/template b/srcpkgs/jq/template
index 04d1696c576..c1053b1811f 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/jq/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/jq/template
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ short_desc="Command-line JSON processor"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="custom"
 homepage="http://stedolan.github.io/jq/"
+update_site="http://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/"
 distfiles="http://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/source/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=998c41babeb57b4304e65b4eb73094279b3ab1e63801b6b4bddd487ce009b39d
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/kpartx/template b/srcpkgs/kpartx/template
index f67bc134f20..2b6a57edd10 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/kpartx/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/kpartx/template
@@ -10,5 +10,6 @@ short_desc="Create device maps from partition tables"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/"
+update_pattern='multipath-tools-\K[\d.]+\d+'
 distfiles="http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/multipath-tools/multipath-tools-${version}.tar.bz2"
 checksum=f13cf1eb84e94e83b2019e68f7965526903c13e94246db43965d181668a0a6f9
diff --git a/srcpkgs/netpbm/template b/srcpkgs/netpbm/template
index 3a4e7b2c0cf..281e617f8e5 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/netpbm/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/netpbm/template
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ short_desc="Toolkit for manipulation of graphic images"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="BSD,GPL-2,custom"
 homepage="http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/"
+update_site="http://svn.code.sf.net/p/netpbm/code/advanced/doc/HISTORY"
+update_pattern='Release.\K[\d.]+'
 nocross=yes
 
 do_fetch() {
diff --git a/srcpkgs/nftables/template b/srcpkgs/nftables/template
index bd9fcf85f4e..ca35c8aa470 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/nftables/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/nftables/template
@@ -10,5 +10,6 @@ short_desc="Netfilter nftables userspace tools"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://netfilter.org/projects/nftables/"
+update_ignore="0.0*"
 distfiles="http://www.netfilter.org/projects/${pkgname}/files/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.bz2"
 checksum=4d372645442d89675c7148b8a0a112c4825b57edf8bad15ddf9a08c220229c2f
diff --git a/srcpkgs/openbsd-netcat/template b/srcpkgs/openbsd-netcat/template
index f1bc4092d88..a4d4f88ec30 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/openbsd-netcat/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/openbsd-netcat/template
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ license="BSD"
 homepage="http://packages.debian.org/sid/netcat-openbsd"
 distfiles="http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/netcat-openbsd/netcat-openbsd_${version%_*}.orig.tar.gz
 	http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/netcat-openbsd/netcat-openbsd_${version/_/-}.debian.tar.gz"
+update_pattern='netcat-openbsd_\K[\d.]+\d+'
 checksum="40653fe66c1516876b61b07e093d826e2a5463c5d994f1b7e6ce328f3edb211e
 	eee759327ffea293e81d0dde67921b7fcfcad279ffd7a2c9d037bbc8f882b363"
 wrksrc="netcat-openbsd-${version%_*}"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/openjdk/template b/srcpkgs/openjdk/template
index 2bbb182df89..a80e7968cd3 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/openjdk/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/openjdk/template
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ short_desc="OpenJDK Java Development Kit"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-3"
 homepage="http://openjdk.java.net/"
+update_site="http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/tags"
+update_pattern='jdk\K8u\d+'
 distfiles="http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/archive/${_repo_ver}.tar.gz>jdk8u-${_repo_ver}.tar.gz
  http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/corba/archive/${_repo_ver}.tar.gz>corba-${_repo_ver}.tar.gz
  http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/hotspot/archive/${_repo_ver}.tar.gz>hotspot-${_repo_ver}.tar.gz
diff --git a/srcpkgs/par/template b/srcpkgs/par/template
index 402bc7c02f5..d57662cd11b 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/par/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/par/template
@@ -8,13 +8,14 @@ short_desc="Paragraph reformatter"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="custom"
 homepage="http://www.nicemice.net/par/"
+update_pattern='<title>Par\s\K[\d.]+\d+'
 distfiles="http://www.nicemice.net/par/Par152-autoconf.tar.gz
-	http://www.nicemice.net/par/Par152.tar.gz"
+ http://www.nicemice.net/par/Par152.tar.gz"
 checksum="034fb943236523629eefee0a33fc6afb5b881648a2fc5c6bef7fd1b89ce44d34
-	33dcdae905f4b4267b4dc1f3efb032d79705ca8d2122e17efdecfd8162067082"
+ 33dcdae905f4b4267b4dc1f3efb032d79705ca8d2122e17efdecfd8162067082"
 
 do_install() {
-    vinstall par 755 usr/bin
-    vinstall par.1 644 usr/share/man/man1
-    vinstall par.doc 644 usr/share/licenses/$pkgname
+	vbin par
+	vman par.1
+	vlicense par.doc LICENSE
 }
diff --git a/srcpkgs/pax/template b/srcpkgs/pax/template
index 609140aecac..95054616c7a 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pax/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pax/template
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ short_desc="pax archiver from MirOS (plus tar and cpio)"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="BSD"
 homepage="https://www.mirbsd.org/MirOS/dist/mir/cpio/"
+update_pattern='paxmirabilis-\K[\d.]+\d+'
 distfiles="https://www.mirbsd.org/MirOS/dist/mir/cpio/paxmirabilis-${version}.cpio.gz"
 checksum=f464f143f81ff95097eb76e8e7bd9007a3101cbe481a89b09e69bf00e7c95fed
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/plan9port/template b/srcpkgs/plan9port/template
index 12062d21444..773857e4a07 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/plan9port/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/plan9port/template
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ short_desc="Port of many Plan 9 programs to Unix-like operating systems"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-3"
 homepage="http://swtch.com/plan9port/"
+update_site="https://code.google.com/p/plan9port/downloads/list"
 distfiles="https://$pkgname.googlecode.com/files/$pkgname-$version.tgz"
 checksum=cbb826cde693abdaa2051c49e7ebf75119bf2a4791fe3b3229f1ac36a408eaeb
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/puzzles/template b/srcpkgs/puzzles/template
index 532d77f71d1..a042e64ca66 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/puzzles/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/puzzles/template
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ short_desc="Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="MIT"
 homepage="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/"
+update_site="http://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/puzzles/"
+update_pattern='Revision\s\K\d+(?=.*of)'
 distfiles="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/puzzles-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=4c9a160807f72ed3e19eb4ff03055eeab40c250fa674f78c1c7c98f306c509c3
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/socklog/template b/srcpkgs/socklog/template
index 0b20e34f65d..efa392e5d0b 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/socklog/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/socklog/template
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ short_desc="Small and secure syslogd replacement for use with runit"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="custom"
 homepage="http://smarden.org/socklog/"
+update_site="http://smarden.org/socklog/install.html"
 distfiles="http://smarden.org/socklog/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=aa869a787ee004da4e5509b5a0031bcc17a4ab4ac650c2ce8d4e488123acb455
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/stunnel/template b/srcpkgs/stunnel/template
index 1a5f155ddc5..e201ee813e7 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/stunnel/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/stunnel/template
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ short_desc="SSL encryption wrapper"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="https://www.stunnel.org/"
+update_site="https://www.stunnel.org/downloads.html"
+update_ignore="*b*"
 distfiles="https://www.stunnel.org/downloads/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
 checksum=098c2b6db0793ea4fa5b6767ce6ef1853e9f6cc2f32133024be55f6a460b1a40
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/swi-prolog/template b/srcpkgs/swi-prolog/template
index 68b46c35b92..da9af83ae13 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/swi-prolog/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/swi-prolog/template
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ short_desc="A comprehensive free Prolog environment"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="LGPL-2.1"
 homepage="http://www.swi-prolog.org/"
+update_site="http://www.swi-prolog.org/download/stable"
+update_pattern='pl-\K[\d.]+\d'
 distfiles="http://www.swi-prolog.org/download/stable/src/pl-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=9f80bb274e2f31fd68b0acbe35982c012d5f8311dbe44ec1d8d04351a776996d
 nocross=yes
diff --git a/srcpkgs/sysstat/template b/srcpkgs/sysstat/template
index 161ba4f66a7..db41c997923 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/sysstat/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/sysstat/template
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ short_desc="A collection of performance monitoring tools"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/"
+update_site="http://sebastien.godard.pagesperso-orange.fr/download.html"
 distfiles="http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=00c6e91a7a2796a46cde095a9ac943bd35d7247fab23105b73a8a3f4f39fa937
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/teeworlds/template b/srcpkgs/teeworlds/template
index 4d5d84949a2..ce590e21b43 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/teeworlds/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/teeworlds/template
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ short_desc="A retro multiplayer shooter"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="custom"
 homepage="https://www.teeworlds.com"
+update_site="https://www.teeworlds.com/?page=downloads"
 distfiles="https://www.teeworlds.com/files/${pkgname}-${version}-source.tar.gz"
 checksum=00061b30377597a61810eda3dc5de0caad439ca851cb8eebbe4152e4f861e2af
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/trn/template b/srcpkgs/trn/template
index d6d36a196f4..3b2cd7862d2 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/trn/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/trn/template
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ short_desc="Text-based threaded Usenet newsreader"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="custom"
 homepage="http://trn.sourceforge.net/"
+update_pattern='trn-\S*?(?=.tar.gz)'
 distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/${pkgname}/${pkgname}4/${wrksrc}.tar.gz"
 checksum=9ab0430244903ad86ed74fcc2fdc39dc043d23968888e071313050a967b8a6ff
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/vim-gnupg/template b/srcpkgs/vim-gnupg/template
index bac0f49a24b..93f0b891f31 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/vim-gnupg/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/vim-gnupg/template
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ short_desc="Plugin for transparent editing of gpg encrypted files"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3645"
+update_pattern='<b>\K[\d.]+(?=</b>)'
 distfiles="http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=18070>gnupg.vim"
 checksum=e54935e321941fcb18b98385be48c610f6978d88f616253a12d0e339fb00b5f5
 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/wpa_gui/template b/srcpkgs/wpa_gui/template
index 945fd00dab1..5b50f735dae 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/wpa_gui/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/wpa_gui/template
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ short_desc="WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X Supplicant -- Graphical User Interface"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="BSD"
 homepage="http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant"
+update_pattern='wpa_supplicant-\K[\d.]+\d+'
 distfiles="http://hostap.epitest.fi/releases/wpa_supplicant-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=eaaa5bf3055270e521b2dff64f2d203ec8040f71958b8588269a82c00c9d7b6a