diff --git a/testing/hy/APKBUILD b/testing/hy/APKBUILD
index f63ce44852e..165a6eb58cf 100644
--- a/testing/hy/APKBUILD
+++ b/testing/hy/APKBUILD
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 # Maintainer: Sören Tempel <soeren+alpine@soeren-tempel.net>
 pkgname=hy
 pkgver=0.29.0
-pkgrel=0
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python"
 url="http://hylang.org/"
 arch="noarch"
 license="MIT"
 depends="python3 py3-funcparserlib py3-rply py3-colorama"
-makedepends="py3-setuptools py3-sphinx py3-sphinxcontrib-hydomain py3-sphinx_rtd_theme py3-wheel"
+makedepends="py3-setuptools py3-sphinx py3-sphinxcontrib-hydomain py3-sphinx_rtd_theme py3-wheel py3-gpep517"
 checkdepends="python3-tests py3-pytest py3-pytest-runner py3-tox"
 options="net"
 subpackages="$pkgname-pyc"
@@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ source="$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/hylang/hy/archive/$pkgver.ta
 export HY_VERSION="$pkgver"
 
 build() {
-	python3 setup.py build
+	gpep517 build-wheel \
+		--wheel-dir .dist \
+		--output-fd 3 3>&1 >&2
 
 	# TODO: Building the documentation requires py3-sphinx == 5.0.2.
 	#cd docs
@@ -29,13 +31,17 @@ build() {
 }
 
 check() {
+	python3 -m venv --clear --without-pip --system-site-packages .testenv
+	gpep517 install-wheel --destdir .testenv --prefix '' .dist/*.whl
 	# Ignore tests requiring binaries to be installed
-	pytest --ignore tests/test_bin.py \
+	.testenv/bin/python3 -m pytest \
+		--ignore tests/test_bin.py \
 		--ignore tests/test_hy2py.py
 }
 
 package() {
-	python3 setup.py install --skip-build --root="$pkgdir"
+	gpep517 install-wheel --destdir "$pkgdir" \
+		.dist/*.whl
 
 	# XXX: See comment regarding documentation above.
 	# local man