diff --git a/changelog/2474.trivial b/changelog/2474.trivial
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9ea3fb651
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/2474.trivial
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Create invoke tasks for updating the vendored packages.
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diff --git a/tasks/__init__.py b/tasks/__init__.py
index 9551ff059..992f4a4ad 100644
--- a/tasks/__init__.py
+++ b/tasks/__init__.py
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ Invoke tasks to help with pytest development and release process.
 
 import invoke
 
-from . import generate
+from . import generate, vendoring
 
-ns = invoke.Collection(generate)
+
+ns = invoke.Collection(
+    generate,
+    vendoring
+)
diff --git a/tasks/vendoring.py b/tasks/vendoring.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..867f2946b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tasks/vendoring.py
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
+import py
+import invoke
+
+VENDOR_TARGET = py.path.local("_pytest/vendored_packages")
+GOOD_FILES = 'README.md', '__init__.py'
+
+@invoke.task()
+def remove_libs(ctx):
+    print("removing vendored libs")
+    for path in VENDOR_TARGET.listdir():
+        if path.basename not in GOOD_FILES:
+            print(" ", path)
+            path.remove()
+
+@invoke.task(pre=[remove_libs])
+def update_libs(ctx):
+    print("installing libs")
+    ctx.run("pip install -t {target} pluggy".format(target=VENDOR_TARGET))
+    ctx.run("git add {target}".format(target=VENDOR_TARGET))
+    print("Please commit to finish the update after running the tests:")
+    print()
+    print('    git commit -am "Updated vendored libs"')