diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 0907d6e..6195b17 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 /linux-5.8.11.tar.xz
 /rd-agent-2.1.2.crate
+/rd-agent-2.1.2-vendor.tar.gz
diff --git a/rust-rd-agent.spec b/rust-rd-agent.spec
index 61a5e25..1d80f74 100644
--- a/rust-rd-agent.spec
+++ b/rust-rd-agent.spec
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@
 
 %global crate rd-agent
 
+%if 0%{?el8}
+# el8 doesn't have these macros
+%global __crates_url https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/
+%global crates_source %{__crates_url}%{crate}/%{version}/download#/%{crate}-%{version}.crate
+%global version_no_tilde %{version}
+%endif
+
 %global selinuxtype targeted
 %bcond_without selinux
 
@@ -18,6 +25,8 @@ URL:            https://crates.io/crates/rd-agent
 Source:         %{crates_source}
 # Used as a data file by rd-agent for the compile sideload
 Source1:        https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/linux-5.8.11.tar.xz
+# Vendored dependencies for EPEL, update with ./update-vendor-tarball.sh
+Source2:        %{crate}-%{version}-vendor.tar.gz
 # SELinux policy
 Source10:       %{crate}.fc
 Source11:       %{crate}.if
@@ -25,7 +34,12 @@ Source12:       %{crate}.te
 
 ExclusiveArch:  %{rust_arches}
 
+%if 0%{?el8}
+BuildRequires:  rust-toolset
+%else
 BuildRequires:  rust-packaging
+%endif
+
 %if 0%{?with_selinux}
 BuildRequires:  selinux-policy-devel
 %endif
@@ -106,10 +120,14 @@ mkdir selinux
 cp -p %{SOURCE10} %{SOURCE11} %{SOURCE12} selinux
 %endif
 
+%if 0%{?el8}
+%cargo_prep -V 2
+%else
 %cargo_prep
 
 %generate_buildrequires
 %cargo_generate_buildrequires
+%endif
 
 %build
 %cargo_build
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index cc27c9f..314aeaa 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-SHA512 (linux-5.8.11.tar.xz) = bb6994f09aabfb0076f3023dd8359c5c569a4b398d3a3c3c8d6b27052092cab56ad675f45dd6ceba7fe431f2a6a587858f3c21415b5a00adb346bd2c68d85b0f
 SHA512 (rd-agent-2.1.2.crate) = 15dae4e8d6cb2466130eeb208e387e5cc2bc1c0179dd1261057f657738c7f1dc5b54cb29d4a37074aba7196d535b91ee5058b90403c27a12115dfa1ce87712d0
+SHA512 (linux-5.8.11.tar.xz) = bb6994f09aabfb0076f3023dd8359c5c569a4b398d3a3c3c8d6b27052092cab56ad675f45dd6ceba7fe431f2a6a587858f3c21415b5a00adb346bd2c68d85b0f
+SHA512 (rd-agent-2.1.2-vendor.tar.gz) = 67bbbd761c7788c3689f1d67e720e4cafc38442b2f64e3ff384927a90ccad458b0e648224e1fa46c41550a554e17819cc7a23606d2598d1e40589fe02377ed39
diff --git a/update-vendor-tarball.sh b/update-vendor-tarball.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..189ec61
--- /dev/null
+++ b/update-vendor-tarball.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+name='rd-agent'
+specfile="rust-${name}.spec"
+version=$(rpm -q --qf '%{VERSION}\n' --specfile "$specfile" | head -1)
+nv="${name}-${version}"
+crate="${nv}.crate"
+vendor_tarball="${nv}-vendor.tar.gz"
+
+if [ -f "$vendor_tarball" ]; then
+  echo "${vendor_tarball} already exists, aborting"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+[ -f "$crate" ] || spectool -g "$specfile"
+tardir="$PWD"
+workdir=$(mktemp -d)
+trap 'rm -rf "$workdir"' EXIT
+
+tar xvzf "$tardir/$crate" -C "$workdir"
+(cd "${workdir}/${nv}" && \
+  cargo vendor && \
+  tar cvzf "${tardir}/${vendor_tarball}" vendor/)
+
+exit 0