diff --git a/community/python-awkward/PKGBUILD b/community/python-awkward/PKGBUILD
index 8116473fc..1d21c1fb2 100644
--- a/community/python-awkward/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/python-awkward/PKGBUILD
@@ -2,23 +2,23 @@
 
 # ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
 #  - remove cuda make/optdepends
-#  - move python-pyaml to makedepends
+#  - move python-yaml to makedepends
 #  - add python-setuptools to makedepends
 
 _pkgname=awkward
 pkgname="python-${_pkgname}"
-pkgver=1.8.0
-pkgrel=2
+pkgver=1.9.0
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Manipulate jagged, chunky, and/or bitmasked arrays as easily as Numpy"
-url="https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward-1.0"
+url="https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward"
 license=('BSD')
 arch=('x86_64')
 depends=('python-numpy' 'python-packaging')
-makedepends=('cmake' 'git' 'python-build' 'python-installer' 'python-wheel' 'python-pyaml' 'python-setuptools')
+makedepends=('cmake' 'git' 'python-build' 'python-installer' 'python-wheel' 'python-yaml' 'python-setuptools')
 checkdepends=('python-pytest' 'python-pytest-cov' 'python-hist' 'python-pandas' 'python-numexpr' 'python-pyarrow' 'python-scikit-hep-testdata' 'python-vector'
               'root' 'pybind11' 'rapidjson')
 source=(
-  "${pkgname}::git+https://github.com/scikit-hep/${_pkgname}-1.0#tag=${pkgver}"
+  "${pkgname}::git+https://github.com/scikit-hep/${_pkgname}#tag=v${pkgver}"
   "${pkgname}-dlpack::git+https://github.com/dmlc/dlpack.git"
   "${pkgname}-rapidjson::git+https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson.git"
   "${pkgname}-pybind11::git+https://github.com/pybind/pybind11.git"
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ build() {
 
 check() {
   cd "${pkgname}"
-  PYTHONPATH="build/lib.linux-${CARCH}-$(get_pyver)" pytest tests || echo 'some tests fail'
+  local python_version=$(python -c 'import sys; print("".join(map(str, sys.version_info[:2])))')
+  PYTHONPATH="$PWD/build/lib.linux-$CARCH-cpython-${python_version}" pytest || echo 'some tests fail'
 }
 
 package() {