diff --git a/recipes/pyfastani/meta.yaml b/recipes/pyfastani/meta.yaml
index a9de6ea35383c..6449236f384f7 100644
--- a/recipes/pyfastani/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipes/pyfastani/meta.yaml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ source:
 
 build:
   number: 0
-  script: "{{ PYTHON }} -m pip install . --no-deps --ignore-installed -vvv "
+  script: "{{ PYTHON }} -m pip install . --no-deps --no-build-isolation --no-cache-dir -vvv"
   run_exports:
     - {{ pin_subpackage(name, max_pin="x.x") }}
 
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ requirements:
   build:
     - {{ compiler('c') }}
     - {{ compiler('cxx') }}
-    - 'cmake >=3.20'
+    - cmake >=3.20
     - make
   host:
     - python
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ requirements:
     - scikit-build-core
   run:
     - python
-    - zlib
 
 test:
   imports:
@@ -40,9 +39,11 @@ test:
 about:
   home: https://github.com/althonos/pyfastani
   license: MIT
+  license_family: MIT
   license_file: COPYING
-  summary: Cython bindings and Python interface to FastANI, a method for fast whole-genome similarity estimation..
-  doc_url: https://pyfastani.readthedocs.org/
+  summary: "Cython bindings and Python interface to FastANI, a method for fast whole-genome similarity estimation."
+  doc_url: https://pyfastani.readthedocs.org
+  dev_url: https://github.com/althonos/pyfastani
 
 extra:
   additional-platforms: