diff --git a/.Jenkins/workflows/Jenkinsfile_EL9 b/.Jenkins/workflows/Jenkinsfile_EL9
index 9646811b..47ca4116 100644
--- a/.Jenkins/workflows/Jenkinsfile_EL9
+++ b/.Jenkins/workflows/Jenkinsfile_EL9
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ pipeline {
                             }
                     }
                 }
-                stage('rpmbuild') {
+                stage('build_whl') {
                     agent {
                         node {
                             label 'podman'
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ pipeline {
                     steps {
                         script {
                             // DOCKER_IMAGE is defined through Jenkins project
-                            rpmbuildStageDockerImage="${DOCKER_IMAGE}_${BUILD_NUMBER}_${STAGE_NAME}"
+                            buildwhlStageDockerImage="${DOCKER_IMAGE}_${BUILD_NUMBER}_${STAGE_NAME}"
                         }
                         echo "cleanup workspace"
                         sh 'for f in $(ls -A); do rm -rf ${f}; done'
@@ -135,16 +135,16 @@ pipeline {
                             fi
                             cd ..
                         '''
-                        echo "prepare podman image ${rpmbuildStageDockerImage}"
-                        sh "podman build --pull --tag ${rpmbuildStageDockerImage} --build-arg BASEIMAGE=docker.io/hepcloud/decision-engine-ci-el9:${BRANCH} --build-arg UID=\$(id -u) --build-arg GID=\$(id -g) -f decisionengine_modules/package/ci/EL9/Dockerfile decisionengine_modules/package/ci/EL9/"
+                        echo "prepare podman image ${buildwhlStageDockerImage}"
+                        sh "podman build --pull --tag ${buildwhlStageDockerImage} --build-arg BASEIMAGE=hepcloud/decision-engine-ci-el9:${BRANCH} --build-arg UID=\$(id -u) --build-arg GID=\$(id -g) -f decisionengine_modules/package/ci/EL9/Dockerfile decisionengine_modules/package/ci/EL9/"
                         echo "Run ${STAGE_NAME} tests"
-                        sh "podman run --userns keep-id:uid=\$(id -u),gid=\$(id -g) --rm --env GITHUB_PR_NUMBER=${GITHUB_PR_NUMBER} --env PYTEST_TIMEOUT=${PYTEST_TIMEOUT} -v ${WORKSPACE}/decisionengine_modules:${WORKSPACE}/decisionengine_modules -w ${WORKSPACE}/decisionengine_modules ${rpmbuildStageDockerImage} \"setup.py bdist_rpm\" \"rpmbuild.log\" \"${BRANCH}\""
+                        sh "podman run --userns keep-id:uid=\$(id -u),gid=\$(id -g) --rm --env GITHUB_PR_NUMBER=${GITHUB_PR_NUMBER} --env PYTEST_TIMEOUT=${PYTEST_TIMEOUT} -v ${WORKSPACE}/decisionengine_modules:${WORKSPACE}/decisionengine_modules -w ${WORKSPACE}/decisionengine_modules ${buildwhlStageDockerImage} \"setup.py bdist_wheel\" \"build_whl.log\" \"${BRANCH}\""
                     }
                     post {
                         always {
-                            archiveArtifacts artifacts: "decisionengine_modules/rpmbuild.log,decisionengine_modules/dist/*.rpm"
-                            echo "cleanup podman image ${rpmbuildStageDockerImage}"
-                            sh "podman rmi ${rpmbuildStageDockerImage}"
+                            archiveArtifacts artifacts: "decisionengine_modules/build_whl.log,decisionengine_modules/dist/*.whl"
+                            echo "cleanup podman image ${buildwhlStageDockerImage}"
+                            sh "podman rmi ${buildwhlStageDockerImage}"
                         }
                     }
                 }
diff --git a/.github/actions/python-command-in-el9-container/action.yaml b/.github/actions/python-command-in-el9-container/action.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5d5d071e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/actions/python-command-in-el9-container/action.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Fermi Research Alliance, LLC
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+name: "Python Action"
+description: "Run python3 action in preconfigured EL9 container image"
+inputs:
+  python-command:
+    description: "What to run"
+    required: true
+    default: "-m pytest"
+  logfile:
+    description: "Where to log output"
+    required: true
+    default: "pytest.log"
+runs:
+  using: "docker"
+  image: "../../../package/ci/EL9/Dockerfile"
+  args:
+    - ${{ inputs.python-command }}
+    - ${{ inputs.logfile }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index 53eba063..c49842d5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -173,3 +173,42 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           cd doc
           make rst html latexpdf
+
+  build_whl:
+    if: ${{ github.ref != 'refs/heads/1.7' }}
+    name: Build DE Modules whl
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: pytest
+    steps:
+      - name: make date tag
+        id: mkdatetag
+        run: echo "::set-output name=dtag::$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)"
+
+      - name: make ref tag case 1
+        id: mkreftag1
+        if: ${{ github.event.inputs.ref != '' }}
+        run: echo "::set-output name=reftag::${{github.event.inputs.ref}}"
+
+      - name: make ref tag case 2
+        id: mkreftag2
+        if: ${{ github.event.inputs.ref == '' }}
+        run: echo "::set-output name=reftag::${GITHUB_BASE_REF:+PR}"$(awk -F"/" '{print $3}' <<< ${GITHUB_REF})
+
+      - name: checkout code tree
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+          ref: ${{github.event.inputs.ref}}
+
+      - name: Run the build in a container (EL9/HEPCloud-CI)
+        uses: ./.github/actions/python-command-in-el9-container
+        with:
+          python-command: "setup.py bdist_wheel"
+          logfile: "build_whl.log"
+
+      - name: Archive whl
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
+        with:
+          name: whl-DE-EL9-${{steps.mkreftag1.outputs.reftag}}${{steps.mkreftag2.outputs.reftag}}-${{steps.mkdatetag.outputs.dtag}}
+          path: dist/*.whl
+          if-no-files-found: error
diff --git a/package/ci/EL9/python3-entrypoint.sh b/package/ci/EL9/python3-entrypoint.sh
index d1af2f52..3365a62c 100755
--- a/package/ci/EL9/python3-entrypoint.sh
+++ b/package/ci/EL9/python3-entrypoint.sh
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ git clone -b ${DE_BRANCH} https://github.com/HEPCloud/decisionengine.git
 
 # checkout GlideinWMS for python3
 rm -rf glideinwms
-git clone -b branch_v3_9 https://github.com/glideinWMS/glideinwms.git
+git clone -b master https://github.com/glideinWMS/glideinwms.git
 
 # Install dependencies for GlideinWMS
 python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7cd88ab4..0a467bb4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
 ]
 rpm_require.extend(__base_pip_requires)
 
+
 # This metadata can be read out with:
 #    import importlib.metadata
 #    dir(importlib.metadata.metadata('decisionengine_modules'))
@@ -78,6 +79,19 @@
 #    importlib_resources on python < 3.9
 #
 # Much of it comes out of decisionengine_modules.about.py
+
+# for decisionengine dev we have version in the form X.Y.Z.devN
+# while for tag we have version in the form X.Y.Z
+verarr = about.__version__.split(".")[:4]
+if len(verarr) > 3:
+    # this is a dev version
+    ver = ".".join(verarr[:3] + [verarr[3][:3]])
+else:
+    # this is a tag
+    ver = ".".join(verarr[:3])
+# string to add decisionengine as decisionengine_modules requirement
+de_req = [f"decisionengine>=" + ver]
+
 setup(
     setup_requires=["setuptools >= 51.2", "wheel >= 0.36.2", "setuptools_scm >= 6.3.1"],
     python_requires=">3.7.0",
@@ -89,7 +103,7 @@
     license=about.__license__,
     package_dir={"": "src"},
     packages=find_packages(where="src", exclude=("tests", "*.tests", "*.tests.*", "build.*", "doc.*")),
-    install_requires=runtime_require,
+    install_requires=runtime_require + de_req,
     extras_require={
         "develop": devel_req,
     },