diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5a9eb3a..991b358 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 clog
-/rpy2-3.0.0.tar.gz
+/rpy2-3.0.1.tar.gz
diff --git a/rpy.spec b/rpy.spec
index 368d5f8..9de5115 100644
--- a/rpy.spec
+++ b/rpy.spec
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 %global srcname rpy
 %global sum Python interface to the R language
 %global rver   3.5.2
-%global python2 0
 
+%if 0%{?fedora} < 30
+%global python2 1
+%endif
 
 Name:          rpy
-Version:       3.0.0
+Version:       3.0.1
 Release:       1%{?dist}
 Summary:       %{sum}
 
@@ -16,12 +18,14 @@ Source:        https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/r/%{srcname}2/%{sr
 BuildArch:      noarch
 
 BuildRequires: R-devel = %{rver}
-%if %{python2}
-BuildRequires: python-setuptools, python2-devel
+%if 0%{?python2}
+BuildRequires: python2-setuptools, python2-devel
+BuildRequires: python2-pytest
 %endif
 BuildRequires: python3-setuptools, python3-devel, python3-cffi
 BuildRequires: python3-numpy
 BuildRequires: readline-devel
+BuildRequires: python3-pytest
 
 Requires:      python3-%{srcname} = %{version}-%{release}
 
@@ -31,7 +35,7 @@ programming language.  It can manage all kinds of R objects and can
 execute arbitrary R functions. All the errors from the R language are
 converted to Python exceptions.
 
-%if %{python2}
+%if 0%{?python2}
 %package -n python2-%{srcname}
 Summary:       %{sum}
 #Requires:      python2-numpy
@@ -69,20 +73,26 @@ converted to Python exceptions.
 # Temporary workaround to fix a bug in R
 # see https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2016-December/073548.html
 export CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -DHAVE_UINTPTR_T=1"
-%if %{python2}
+%if 0%{?python2}
 %py2_build
 %endif
 %py3_build
 
 %install
-%if %{python2}
+%if 0%{?python2}
 %py2_install
 %endif
 %py3_install
 
+%check
+%if 0%{?python2}
+pytest-2 tests/
+%endif
+pytest-3 tests/
+
 %files
 
-%if %{python2}
+%if 0%{?python2}
 %files -n python2-%{srcname}
 %doc AUTHORS NEWS PKG-INFO
 %license gpl-2.0.txt
@@ -98,6 +108,11 @@ export CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS -DHAVE_UINTPTR_T=1"
 
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Mar  4 2019 José Matos <jamatos@fedoraproject.org> - 3.0.1-1
+- update to 3.0.1
+- add conditional python2 subpackages for fedora < 30
+- add a %%chech section
+
 * Wed Feb 27 2019 José Matos <jamatos@fedoraproject.org> - 3.0.0-1
 - update to 3.0.0
 - fix the directory ownership
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 1896d82..d57f39a 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (rpy2-3.0.0.tar.gz) = 25c8caf19b32bda12acb9f2245dc85d0fe3da7a1aa2d4cd888039b9b0208cbbc0b990c1b80215981fddd6667988970e285b531503129abdb1937c890c0868bb5
+SHA512 (rpy2-3.0.1.tar.gz) = 9d0d17daf30fae4392530393890025068b33e391207ae4177cd91c2fe310c176e605dac4db33962b56417c557a2081af2db065069b0802dfffc9b6cc8378ac7a