diff --git a/Tools/scripts/update-rust-port.sh b/Tools/scripts/update-rust-port.sh
index 80edc8347f71..57d8f0641f9c 100755
--- a/Tools/scripts/update-rust-port.sh
+++ b/Tools/scripts/update-rust-port.sh
@@ -1,87 +1,86 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 #
 # MAINTAINER: yuri@FreeBSD.org
 
 # CAVEAT: ports with Makefile.crates are not yet supported
 
 ## args
 
 VERSION="$1"
 
 ## set strict mode
 
 STRICT="set -euo pipefail"
 $STRICT
 
 ## checks
 
 for dep in portedit rustc; do
 	if ! which -s $dep; then
 		echo "error: $dep dependency is missing, $0 requires lang/rust and ports-mgmt/portfmt to be installed" >&2
 		exit 1
 	fi
 done
 if [ -z "$VERSION" ]; then
 	echo "Usage: $0 <new-version>"
 	exit 1
 fi
 if ! [ -f Makefile ] || ! [ -f pkg-descr ] || ! grep -q "CARGO_CRATES=" Makefile; then
 	echo "$0 should be run in a Rust-based port directory"
 	exit 1
 fi
 
 ## MAIN
 
 # copy Makefile
 cp Makefile Makefile.new
 
 # substitute version tag PORTVERSION or DISTVERSION
 sed -i '' -E "s/^(PORT|DIST)(VERSION=[\t ]*)[0-9.-]+/\1\2${VERSION}/" Makefile.new
 
 # reset PORTREVISION if present
 if grep -q "PORTREVISION=" Makefile; then
 	echo PORTREVISION=0 | portedit merge -i Makefile.new
 fi
 
 # replace CARGO_CRATES with a placeholder
 /usr/bin/awk '
 BEGIN {
 	in_cargo_crates = 0
 }
 /^CARGO_CRATES=.*/ {
 	in_cargo_crates = 1
 	print "#@@@PLACEHOLDER@@@"
 }
 /^\t.*/ {
 	if (in_cargo_crates) {
 		// skip line
 	} else {
 		print $0
 	}
 }
 !/^CARGO_CRATES=.*|^\t.*/ {
 	if (in_cargo_crates) {
 		in_cargo_crates = 0
 	}
 	print $0
-}' < Makefile.new > Makefile.new1 &&
-/bin/mv Makefile.new1 Makefile.new
+}' < Makefile.new > Makefile
 
 # update distinfo
-make -f Makefile.new makesum
+make makesum
 
 # replace the placeholder
 while IFS= read -r line; do
 	if [ "$line" = "#@@@PLACEHOLDER@@@" ]; then
-		make -f Makefile.new cargo-crates | grep -v '^='
+		make cargo-crates | grep -v '^='
 	else
 		echo "$line"
 	fi
-done < Makefile.new > Makefile.new1 &&
-mv Makefile.new1 Makefile.new
-
-# move Makefile.new
+done < Makefile > Makefile.new &&
 mv Makefile.new Makefile
 
+# clean
+make clean
+
 # update distinfo
-make clean makesum
+make makesum