diff --git a/0002-test-Add-compatibility-with-iproute-ss-command.patch b/0002-test-Add-compatibility-with-iproute-ss-command.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..27e2125
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0002-test-Add-compatibility-with-iproute-ss-command.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+From eda7abe337e5e37ef8d1d8ff7abdce334fa9bd21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Jan Friesse <jfriesse@redhat.com>
+Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:22:30 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] test: Add compatibility with iproute ss command
+
+ensure_boothd_not_running is now exectured only when single instance is
+used, but if so, it requires netstat command. Netstat is deprecated for
+some time and it is slowly disappearing from distributions, so add
+support for iproute ss command.
+
+Parameters for both ss and netstat are same, but sadly output differs so
+both netstat and ss output is matched.
+
+Signed-off-by: Jan Friesse <jfriesse@redhat.com>
+---
+ test/boothtestenv.py.in | 6 ++++--
+ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/test/boothtestenv.py.in b/test/boothtestenv.py.in
+index 26a40cb..8a23615 100644
+--- a/test/boothtestenv.py.in
++++ b/test/boothtestenv.py.in
+@@ -31,11 +31,13 @@ class BoothTestEnvironment(unittest.TestCase, BoothAssertions):
+ 
+     def ensure_boothd_not_running(self):
+         # Need to redirect STDERR in case we're not root, in which
+-        # case netstat's -p option causes a warning.  However we only
++        # case netstat's -p option causes a warning (ss doesn't).  However we only
+         # want to kill boothd processes which we own; -p will list the
+         # pid for those and only those, which is exactly what we want
+         # here.
+-        subprocess.call("netstat -tpln 2>&1 | perl -lne 'm,LISTEN\s+(\d+)/boothd, and kill 15, $1'", shell=True)
++        subprocess.call("(netstat -tlnp || ss -tlnp) 2>&1 | " +
++            "perl -lne '(m,LISTEN\s+(\d+)/boothd, || /\"boothd\".*pid=(\d+)/) and kill 15, $1'",
++            shell=True)
+ 
+     def get_tempfile(self, identity):
+         tf = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(
+-- 
+2.18.2
+
diff --git a/booth.spec b/booth.spec
index 853c327..e416b77 100644
--- a/booth.spec
+++ b/booth.spec
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 %bcond_with html_man
 %bcond_with glue
+%bcond_with run_build_tests
 
 ## User and group to use for nonprivileged services (should be in sync with pacemaker)
 %global uname hacluster
@@ -61,12 +62,13 @@
 
 Name:           booth
 Version:        %{boothver}
-Release:        %{boothrel}%{?dist}.4
+Release:        %{boothrel}%{?dist}.5
 Summary:        Ticket Manager for Multi-site Clusters
 License:        GPLv2+
 Url:            https://github.com/%{github_owner}/%{name}
 Source0:        https://github.com/%{github_owner}/%{name}/archive/%{commit}/%{name}-%{shortcommit}.tar.gz
 Patch0:         0001-build-Do-not-link-with-pcmk-libraries.patch
+Patch1:         0002-test-Add-compatibility-with-iproute-ss-command.patch
 
 # direct build process dependencies
 BuildRequires:  autoconf
@@ -102,8 +104,10 @@ BuildRequires:  sed
 BuildRequires:  systemd
 ## for autosetup
 BuildRequires:  git
-# check scriptlet (for perl and netstat)
-BuildRequires:  perl-interpreter net-tools
+%if 0%{?with_run_build_tests}
+# check scriptlet (for perl and ss)
+BuildRequires:  perl-interpreter iproute
+%endif
 
 # this is for a composite-requiring-its-components arranged
 # as an empty package (empty files section) requiring subpackages
@@ -182,8 +186,8 @@ Requires:       %{name}-site = %{version}-%{release}
 Requires:       gdb
 Requires:       %{__python3}
 Requires:       python3-pexpect
-# runtests.py suite (for perl and netstat)
-Requires:       perl-interpreter net-tools
+# runtests.py suite (for perl and ss)
+Requires:       perl-interpreter iproute
 
 %description    test
 Automated tests for running Booth, ticket manager for multi-site clusters.
@@ -246,7 +250,9 @@ sed -e 's#PYTHON_SHEBANG#%{__python3} -Es#g' \
 
 %check
 # alternatively: test/runtests.py
+%if 0%{?with_run_build_tests}
 VERBOSE=1 make check
+%endif
 
 %files          core
 %license COPYING
@@ -292,6 +298,10 @@ VERBOSE=1 make check
 %{_usr}/lib/ocf/resource.d/booth/sharedrsc
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Sep 29 2020 Jan Friesse <jfriesse@redhat.com> - 1.0-6.ac1d34c.git.5
+- Remove net-tools (netstat) dependency and replace it with iproute (ss)
+- Disable running tests during build by default (conditional run_build_tests)
+
 * Mon Jul 27 2020 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.0-6.ac1d34c.git.4
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_33_Mass_Rebuild