diff --git a/contrib/updatecheck/calcversions.sh b/contrib/updatecheck/calcversions.sh
index 1052c352..c688342e 100755
--- a/contrib/updatecheck/calcversions.sh
+++ b/contrib/updatecheck/calcversions.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 version=`head -n 1 ../../VERSION`
 revision=`git describe --always`
 echo "ebusd=${version},${revision}" > versions.txt
+echo "ebusd=${version},${revision}" > oldversions.txt
 files=`find config/ -type f -or -type l`
 ../../src/lib/ebus/test/test_filereader $files|sed -e 's#^config/##' -e 's#^\([^ ]*\) #\1=#' -e 's# #,#g'|sort >> versions.txt
 ./oldtest_filereader $files|sed -e 's#^config/##' -e 's#^\([^ ]*\) #\1=#' -e 's# #,#g'|sort >> oldversions.txt