diff --git a/catatonit.spec b/catatonit.spec
index f1822e5..431dd59 100644
--- a/catatonit.spec
+++ b/catatonit.spec
@@ -3,9 +3,15 @@ Version: 0.1.7
 Summary: A signal-forwarding process manager for containers
 License: GPL-3.0-or-later
 Release: %autorelease
-# For centos on rhcontainerbot/qm copr
-%if 0%{?centos}
-Epoch: 4
+%if %{defined copr_username}
+# Set copr rpm build epoch to a very high value
+Epoch: 101
+%else
+%if %{defined rhel}
+# Bump epoch to 5 for RHEL
+# Ref: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257446
+Epoch: 5
+%endif
 %endif
 %if %{defined golang_arches_future}
 ExclusiveArch: %{golang_arches_future}