diff --git a/testing/hy/0001-get_version.py-Also-write-VERSIONFILE-when-HY_VERSIO.patch b/testing/hy/0001-get_version.py-Also-write-VERSIONFILE-when-HY_VERSIO.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9bb2f40223e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/testing/hy/0001-get_version.py-Also-write-VERSIONFILE-when-HY_VERSIO.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+From 5e06a5b38d9a3026589ea11cc4c64bddd9a88ef3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?S=C3=B6ren=20Tempel?= <soeren+git@soeren-tempel.net>
+Date: Sun, 17 May 2020 16:48:13 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] get_version.py: Also write VERSIONFILE when HY_VERSION env is
+ set
+
+Without this change, hy is not capable of figuring out the correct
+version in the REPL if the version was set using the HY_VERSION
+environment variable during build.
+---
+ get_version.py | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
+ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/get_version.py b/get_version.py
+index 9224f59..c6af6db 100644
+--- a/get_version.py
++++ b/get_version.py
+@@ -5,19 +5,20 @@ import os, subprocess, runpy
+ os.chdir(os.path.split(os.path.abspath(__file__))[0])
+ VERSIONFILE = os.path.join("hy", "version.py")
+ 
+-if "HY_VERSION" in os.environ:
+-    __version__ = os.environ["HY_VERSION"]
+-else:
+-    try:
++try:
++    if "HY_VERSION" in os.environ:
++        __version__ = os.environ["HY_VERSION"]
++    else:
+         __version__ = (subprocess.check_output
+                        (["git", "describe", "--tags", "--dirty"])
+                        .decode('ASCII').strip()
+                        .replace('-', '+', 1).replace('-', '.'))
+-        with open(VERSIONFILE, "wt") as o:
+-            o.write("__version__ = {!r}\n".format(__version__))
+ 
+-    except (subprocess.CalledProcessError, OSError):
+-        if os.path.exists(VERSIONFILE):
+-            __version__ = runpy.run_path(VERSIONFILE)['__version__']
+-        else:
+-            __version__ = "unknown"
++    with open(VERSIONFILE, "wt") as o:
++        o.write("__version__ = {!r}\n".format(__version__))
++
++except (subprocess.CalledProcessError, OSError):
++    if os.path.exists(VERSIONFILE):
++        __version__ = runpy.run_path(VERSIONFILE)['__version__']
++    else:
++        __version__ = "unknown"
diff --git a/testing/hy/APKBUILD b/testing/hy/APKBUILD
index 471c8573216..4f917c49cbc 100644
--- a/testing/hy/APKBUILD
+++ b/testing/hy/APKBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Sören Tempel <soeren+alpine@soeren-tempel.net>
 pkgname=hy
 pkgver=0.18.0
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=3
 pkgdesc="Dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python"
 url="http://hylang.org/"
 arch="noarch"
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ depends="python3 py3-funcparserlib py3-astor py3-rply py3-colorama"
 makedepends="py3-setuptools py3-sphinx py3-sphinx_rtd_theme"
 checkdepends="python3-tests py3-pytest py3-pytest-runner py3-tox"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
-source="$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/hylang/hy/archive/$pkgver.tar.gz"
+source="$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/hylang/hy/archive/$pkgver.tar.gz
+	0001-get_version.py-Also-write-VERSIONFILE-when-HY_VERSIO.patch"
 
 # By default setup.py tries to determine the hy version using
 # git-describe(1). Unfourtunatly, this will return the version
@@ -43,4 +44,5 @@ package() {
 	rm -rf "$pkgdir"/usr/get_version
 }
 
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+sha512sums="ff578eb6ca70f82492b37bfcc41167e8f8d50337bbdd6b049edb654163b60156a65933aa723ea357fee0f84dc25837d70bd00251760fa2b00f599088e592d97c  hy-0.18.0.tar.gz
+fa5c7cd7727a878020e683528a4cd358dc114263a9c65fdb178afd0be9ce5f67b1ff3209fe71f5c36e325c0ce7eac54f2fbe1a2fc647f800f9183edf73b6cc1e  0001-get_version.py-Also-write-VERSIONFILE-when-HY_VERSIO.patch"