diff --git a/SPECS/centos-release-hyperscale.spec b/SPECS/centos-release-hyperscale.spec
index e47fb7f..cc39581 100644
--- a/SPECS/centos-release-hyperscale.spec
+++ b/SPECS/centos-release-hyperscale.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: CentOS Hyperscale SIG main repo configs
 Name: centos-release-hyperscale
 Version: 4
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Release: 3%{?dist}
 License: GPLv2
 URL: http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Hyperscale
 Source0: RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-SIG-HyperScale
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ install -d %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/yum.repos.d
 install -p -m 644 %{SOURCE1} %{SOURCE2} %{SOURCE3} %{SOURCE4} \
   %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/yum.repos.d
 
-%post
+%posttrans hotfixes
 POWERTOOLS_REPO=/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-PowerTools.repo
 if [ -f "${POWERTOOLS_REPO}" ] \
   && [ $(grep -c '^enabled=.$' "${POWERTOOLS_REPO}") -eq 1 ] \
@@ -73,6 +73,11 @@ fi
 %config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-Hyperscale-Spin.repo
 
 %changelog
+* Wed May 19 2021 Michel Alexandre Salim <salimma@centosproject.org> - 4-3
+- Switch to %%posttrans for enabling powertools;
+  this way, we don't enable a repo mid-transaction
+- Limit it to the hotfixes subpackage as that requires EPEL
+
 * Wed May 19 2021 Michel Alexandre Salim <salimma@centosproject.org> - 4-2
 - Trigger enabling powertools repo on package installations and upgrades
 - Fix license declaration; match centos-stream-repos