diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 21895939..ed79f653 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-AC_INIT([rt-app], [m4_esyscmd_s([git describe --tags HEAD])], [juri.lelli@arm.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org])
+AC_INIT([rt-app], [1.0], [juri.lelli@arm.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org])
 AC_COPYRIGHT([Copyright (C) 2009 Giacomo Bagnoli <g.bagnoli@asidev.com>
 Copyright (C) 2016 Juri Lelli      <juri.lelli@arm.com>
 Copyright (C) 2016 Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>])
diff --git a/rt-app.spec.rpkg b/rt-app.spec.rpkg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..82abf109
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rt-app.spec.rpkg
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+# vim: syntax=spec
+
+Name:       {{{ git_dir_name }}}
+
+Version:    1.0
+
+Release:    1%{?dist}
+
+Summary:    rt-app: simulate system load.
+
+License:    GPLv2
+
+URL:        http://github.com/scheduler-tools/rt-app
+
+VCS:        {{{ git_dir_vcs }}}
+
+# git_dir_pack macro places the repository content (the source files) into a tarball
+# and returns its filename. The tarball will be used to build the rpm.
+Source:     {{{ git_dir_pack }}}
+
+Buildrequires: autoconf
+Buildrequires: automake
+Buildrequires: libtool
+Buildrequires: json-c-devel
+
+Requires: json-c
+
+# More detailed description of the package
+%description
+rt-app is a test application that starts multiple periodic threads in order to simulate a real-time periodic load.
+
+# Python permits the !/usr/bin/python shebang for scripts that are cross
+# compatible between python2 and python3, but Fedora 28 does not.  Fedora
+# wants us to choose python3 for cross-compatible scripts.  Since we want
+# to support python2 and python3 users, exclude our scripts from Fedora 28's
+# RPM build check, so that we don't get a bunch of build warnings.
+#
+# Taken from: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7360
+#
+%global __brp_mangle_shebangs_exclude_from workgen
+
+# The following four sections already describe the rpm build process itself.
+# prep will extract the tarball defined as Source above and descend into it.
+%prep
+{{{ git_dir_setup_macro }}}
+
+# This will invoke `make` command in the directory with the extracted sources.
+%build
+autoreconf --install --symlink || exit 1
+./configure --with-deadline
+make
+
+# This will copy the files generated by the `make` command above into
+# the installable rpm package.
+%install
+make install DESTDIR=%{buildroot}
+
+# This lists all the files that are included in the rpm package and that
+# are going to be installed into target system where the rpm is installed.
+%files
+/usr/local/bin/rt-app
+/usr/local/bin/workgen
+
+# Finally, changes from the latest release of your application are generated from
+# your project's Git history. It will be empty until you make first annotated Git tag.
+%changelog
+{{{ git_dir_changelog }}}