diff --git a/alibuild.spec b/alibuild.spec
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..83227470
--- /dev/null
+++ b/alibuild.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+Name:           alibuild
+Version:        %{?version}%{!?version:0}
+Release:        1%{?dist}
+Summary:        ALICE Build Tool
+License:        GPL-3.0-or-later
+URL:            https://github.com/alisw/alibuild
+Source0:        alibuild-%{version}-py3-none-any.whl
+
+BuildArch:      noarch
+BuildRequires:  python3-devel
+BuildRequires:  python3-pip
+
+Requires:       python3
+Requires:       git
+Requires:       python3-pyyaml
+Requires:       python3-requests
+Requires:       python3-distro
+
+%description
+ALICE Build Tool for building HEP software.
+
+%prep
+%build
+
+%install
+%{python3} -m pip install --root %{buildroot} --prefix %{_prefix} --no-deps --no-index %{SOURCE0}
+
+%files
+%{python3_sitelib}/alibuild_helpers/
+%{python3_sitelib}/alibuild-*.dist-info/
+%{_bindir}/aliBuild
+%{_bindir}/alienv
+%{_bindir}/aliDoctor
+%{_bindir}/aliDeps
+%{_bindir}/pb
+
+%changelog
+* Tue Jan 14 2025 ALICE Offline <alice-offline@cern.ch>
+- See https://github.com/alisw/alibuild/releases for release notes
diff --git a/build-rpm.sh b/build-rpm.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..3ac64147
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+++ b/build-rpm.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+
+VERSION=${1:?Usage: $0 <version>}
+SPEC=alibuild.spec
+
+BUILDDIR=$(mktemp -d)
+trap 'rm -rf "$BUILDDIR"' EXIT
+
+echo "Building alibuild ${VERSION} wheel from current directory..."
+
+# Build wheel to SOURCES
+mkdir -p "$BUILDDIR/SOURCES"
+SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION="${VERSION}" pip wheel --no-deps --wheel-dir "$BUILDDIR/SOURCES" .
+
+# Build RPM
+rpmbuild -ba "${SPEC}" \
+    --define "version ${VERSION}" \
+    --define "_topdir ${BUILDDIR}"
+
+# Copy RPMs to current directory
+cp "$BUILDDIR/RPMS"/*/*.rpm "$BUILDDIR/SRPMS"/*.rpm .
+echo "Done. RPMs copied to current directory."
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d3bef30a..d01ebd6a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ alibuild_helpers = ['build_template.sh']
 
 [tool.setuptools.packages.find]
 where = ["."]
-exclude = ["yaml"]
+exclude = ["debian", "docs", "docs.*", "templates", "tests", "tests.*"]
 
 [tool.setuptools.dynamic]
 readme = {file = ["README.rst"]}