diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyres/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyres/default.nix
index 111e05066d6b..2ea6043c4279 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyres/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pyres/default.nix
@@ -1,11 +1,26 @@
-{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, simplejson, redis, setproctitle, nose, pkgs }:
+{ stdenv, fetchPypi, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, simplejson, redis, setproctitle, nose, pkgs }:
+
+let
+
+  # the requirements of `pyres` support Redis 3.x (due to a missing upper-bound),
+  # but it doesn't support Redis 3.x.
+  redis' = redis.overridePythonAttrs (old: rec {
+    pname = "redis";
+    version = "2.10.6";
+    src = fetchPypi {
+      inherit pname version;
+      sha256 = "03vcgklykny0g0wpvqmy8p6azi2s078317wgb2xjv5m2rs9sjb52";
+    };
+  });
+
+in
 
 buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "pyres";
   version = "1.5";
 
   # ps is used in Worker.worker_pids method
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ simplejson setproctitle redis pkgs.ps ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ simplejson setproctitle redis' pkgs.ps ];
   checkInputs = [ nose pkgs.redis ];
 
   # PyPI tarball doesn't contain tests so let's use GitHub