diff --git a/srcpkgs/blender/template b/srcpkgs/blender/template
index ec10659d7fe..4d919454c3e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/blender/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/blender/template
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 pkgname=blender
 version=2.71
 revision=1
-wrksrc="${pkgname}-v${version}"
 hostmakedepends="cmake"
 # XXX missing deps: openexr, openimageio, opencolorio
 makedepends="libgomp-devel libpng-devel tiff-devel python3.4-devel glu-devel
@@ -14,8 +13,8 @@ build_style="cmake"
 maintainer="Enno Boland <eb@s01.de>"
 license="GPL"
 homepage="http://blender.org"
-distfiles="http://download.blender.org/source/${pkgname}-v${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=beaa502c3fe23da963c745247e4d28fed6f3fafd483452d89deaab2166100523
+distfiles="http://download.blender.org/source/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=7daa7f8ce1df495ad20843aa86bc5268179085ec2963655c358b65a2b365ffa2
 short_desc="3D graphics creation suite"
 configure_args="
 -DWITH_INSTALL_PORTABLE=OFF