diff --git a/python-eventlet.spec b/python-eventlet.spec
index 7536cc2..af94c1e 100644
--- a/python-eventlet.spec
+++ b/python-eventlet.spec
@@ -5,6 +5,13 @@ scalability by using non-blocking io while at the same time retaining
 high programmer usability by using coroutines to make the non-blocking
 io operations appear blocking at the source code level.}
 
+# RHEL9 doesn't have nose, and it won't be added to EPEL9 because it's
+# abandoned upstream (and deprecated in Fedora).
+# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2041068
+%if %{undefined el9}
+%bcond_without  tests
+%endif
+
 Name:           python-%{srcname}
 Version:        0.33.1
 Release:        4%{?dist}
@@ -21,8 +28,10 @@ BuildArch:      noarch
 %package -n python3-%{srcname}
 Summary:        %{summary}
 BuildRequires:  python3-devel
+%if %{with tests}
 BuildRequires:  python3-nose
 BuildRequires:  python3-pyOpenSSL
+%endif
 
 %description -n python3-%{srcname} %{_description}
 
@@ -50,10 +59,13 @@ BuildRequires:  python3-zmq
 %pyproject_save_files %{srcname}
 
 %check
+%if %{with tests}
 # Disable setting up dns (we have no /etc/resolv.conf in mock
 export EVENTLET_NO_GREENDNS=yes
-# Tests are written only for Python 3
 nosetests-%{python3_version} -v -e greendns_test -e socket_test -e test_patcher_existing_locks_locked -e test_017_ssl_zeroreturnerror
+%else
+%pyproject_check_import -t
+%endif
 
 %files -n python3-%{srcname} -f %{pyproject_files}
 %doc README.rst AUTHORS NEWS
@@ -66,6 +78,7 @@ nosetests-%{python3_version} -v -e greendns_test -e socket_test -e test_patcher_
 * Tue Jul 26 2022 Carl George <carl@george.computer> - 0.33.1-4
 - Convert to pyproject macros
 - Build docs with make
+- Disable tests on EPEL9
 
 * Fri Jul 22 2022 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 0.33.1-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild