diff --git a/.packit.yml b/.packit.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5d87ed7946c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.packit.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# https://packit.dev/docs/configuration/
+
+specfile_path: util/packaging/rpm/fedorarawhide/chapel.spec
+
+notifications:
+  pull_request:
+    successful_build: true
+
+jobs:
+- job: copr_build
+  trigger: pull_request
+  targets:
+  - fedora-rawhide-aarch64
+  - fedora-rawhide-i386
+  - fedora-rawhide-ppc64le
+  - fedora-rawhide-s390x
+  - fedora-rawhide-x86_64
diff --git a/util/packaging/rpm/README.md b/util/packaging/rpm/README.md
index 6c72ad842068..e755dc0a9840 100644
--- a/util/packaging/rpm/README.md
+++ b/util/packaging/rpm/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Chapel APT Packages
+# Chapel RPM Packages
 
 This directory contains the scripts necessary to build Chapel rpm packages.
 
@@ -9,4 +9,8 @@ the Chapel rpm packages for that OS. Each one should have a Dockerfile that can
 be used to build the package in a clean environment.
 
 The `common` directory contains the common scripts and configuration files used
-by all the packages. The docker builds use the `rpm` directory as the context and pulls in these files as needed.
+by all the packages. The docker builds use the `rpm` directory as the context
+and pulls in these files as needed.
+
+The fedorarawhide directory is used to build rpms for the development Fedora
+release using [packit](https://packit.dev).
diff --git a/util/packaging/rpm/fedorarawhide/chapel.spec b/util/packaging/rpm/fedorarawhide/chapel.spec
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2d1e21602ece
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util/packaging/rpm/fedorarawhide/chapel.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
+Name:           chapel
+Version:        2.6.0
+%global shortversion 2.6
+Release:        %{autorelease}
+Summary:        A Productive Parallel Programming Language
+
+# Most code is under Apache-2.0
+# Files under both Apache-2.0 and MIT:
+#  compiler/adt/vec.cpp
+#  compiler/backend/beautify.cpp
+#  compiler/include/arg.h
+#  compiler/include/beautify.h
+#  compiler/include/list.h
+#  compiler/include/map.h
+#  compiler/include/vec.h
+#  compiler/main/arg.cpp
+# Bison-generated files are licensed GPL-3.0-or-later WITH Bison-exception-2.2:
+#  frontend/lib/parsing/bison-chpl-lib.cpp
+#  frontend/lib/parsing/bison-chpl-lib.h
+
+License:        Apache-2.0 AND (GPL-3.0-or-later WITH Bison-exception-2.2) AND (Apache-2.0 AND MIT)
+URL:            https://chapel-lang.org
+Source0:        https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/archive/%{version}/chapel-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source1:        chplconfig
+# Unsupported architecture
+ExcludeArch:    %{ix86}
+
+BuildRequires:  bash
+BuildRequires:  chrpath
+BuildRequires:  clang20-devel
+BuildRequires:  cmake
+BuildRequires:  diffutils
+BuildRequires:  gawk
+BuildRequires:  git-core
+BuildRequires:  gcc
+BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
+BuildRequires:  gmp-devel
+BuildRequires:  hwloc-devel
+# Full system support on host requires bundling
+#BuildRequires:  jemalloc-devel
+BuildRequires:  libfabric-devel
+BuildRequires:  libunwind-devel
+BuildRequires:  llvm20-devel
+BuildRequires:  m4
+BuildRequires:  make
+BuildRequires:  mimalloc-devel
+BuildRequires:  pmix-devel
+BuildRequires:  perl
+BuildRequires:  python3-devel
+# Modified version is bundled
+#BuildRequires:  re2-devel
+BuildRequires:  stb_image-devel
+BuildRequires:  stb_image_write-devel
+BuildRequires:  which
+BuildRequires:  whereami
+# Documentation
+BuildRequires:  python3dist(argcomplete)
+BuildRequires:  python3dist(babel)
+BuildRequires:  python3dist(breathe)
+BuildRequires:  python3dist(docutils)
+BuildRequires:  python3dist(filelock)
+BuildRequires:  python3dist(jinja2)
+BuildRequires:  python3dist(junitparser)
+BuildRequires:  python3dist(markupsafe)
+BuildRequires:  python3dist(pycparser)
+BuildRequires:  python3dist(pycparserext)
+BuildRequires:  python3dist(pygments)
+BuildRequires:  python3dist(pytest)
+BuildRequires:  python3dist(pytest-lsp)
+BuildRequires:  python3dist(pyyaml)
+# Not yet packaged
+#BuildRequires:  python3dist(scspell3k)
+BuildRequires:  python3dist(setuptools)
+BuildRequires:  python3dist(sphinx)
+BuildRequires:  python3dist(sphinx-rtd-theme)
+BuildRequires:  python3dist(sphinxcontrib-chapeldomain)
+BuildRequires:  python3dist(urllib3)
+Requires: stb_image-devel
+Requires: stb_image_write-devel
+Requires:  whereami
+Provides: bundled(re2)
+
+%description
+Chapel is a modern programming language designed for productive parallel
+computing at scale. Chapel's design and implementation have been undertaken
+with portability in mind, permitting Chapel to run on multicore desktops and
+laptops, commodity clusters, and the cloud, in addition to the high-end
+supercomputers for which it was originally undertaken.
+
+%prep
+%autosetup -p1
+cp %{SOURCE1} .
+# Use package in Fedora
+rm modules/packages/ImageHelper/stb/README
+rm modules/packages/ImageHelper/stb/stb_image.h
+rm modules/packages/ImageHelper/stb/stb_image_write.h
+ln -s %{_includedir}/stb/stb_image.h modules/packages/ImageHelper/stb/stb_image.h
+ln -s %{_includedir}/stb/stb_image_write.h modules/packages/ImageHelper/stb/stb_image_write.h
+
+%build
+source chplconfig
+%make_build
+
+
+%install
+source chplconfig
+%make_install
+mkdir -p  %{buildroot}%{_libdir}
+mv %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/lib/chapel %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/chapel
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/cmake
+mv %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/lib/cmake/chpl %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/cmake/chpl
+%ifarch ppc64le
+chrpath --delete %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/runtime/lib/compiler/linux_ppc_le64-%{_arch}/libChplFrontendShared.so
+%elifarch s390x
+chrpath --delete %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/runtime/lib/compiler/linux32-%{_arch}/libChplFrontendShared.so
+%else
+chrpath --delete %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/runtime/lib/compiler/linux64-%{_arch}/libChplFrontendShared.so
+%endif
+# Remove development files
+rm %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/runtime/include/.gitignore
+rm %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/make/.gitignore
+rm %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/chapel/%{shortversion}//modules/.gitignore
+rm %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/chapel/%{shortversion}//third-party/chpl-venv/chpldoc-sphinx-project/.gitignore
+rm %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/util/chplenv/.gitignore
+%ifarch ppc64le
+rm %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/third-party/re2/install/linux_ppc_le64-%{_arch}-unknown-gnu-pic/lib/pkgconfig/re2.pc
+rm -r %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/third-party/re2/install/linux_ppc_le64-%{_arch}-unknown-gnu-pic/lib/pkgconfig/
+%elifarch s390x
+rm %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/third-party/re2/install/linux32-%{_arch}-unknown-gnu-pic/lib/pkgconfig/re2.pc
+rm -r %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/third-party/re2/install/linux32-%{_arch}-unknown-gnu-pic/lib/pkgconfig/
+%else
+rm %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/third-party/re2/install/linux64-%{_arch}-unknown-gnu-pic/lib/pkgconfig/re2.pc
+rm -r %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/third-party/re2/install/linux64-%{_arch}-unknown-gnu-pic/lib/pkgconfig/
+%endif
+
+%py3_shebang_fix %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/util/chplenv/chpl_lib_pic.py
+%py3_shebang_fix %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/util/chplenv/chpl_mimalloc.py
+
+# Add executable permissions
+chmod +x %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/util/chplenv/chpl_lib_pic.py
+chmod +x %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/util/chplenv/chpl_mimalloc.py
+chmod +x %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/util/config/run-in-venv-common.bash
+
+rm %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/modules/packages/ImageHelper/stb/stb_image.h
+rm %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/modules/packages/ImageHelper/stb/stb_image_write.h
+ln -s %{_includedir}/stb/stb_image.h \
+  %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/modules/packages/ImageHelper/stb/stb_image.h
+ln -s %{_includedir}/stb/stb_image_write.h \
+  %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/modules/packages/ImageHelper/stb/stb_image_write.h
+
+%check
+source chplconfig
+# On ppc64le and s390x check fails with
+# /usr/include/bits/string_fortified.h:29:10: warning: ‘__builtin___memcpy_chk’ specified bound 18446744073709551584 exceeds maximum object size 9223372036854775807 [-Wstringop-overflow=]
+%ifnarch s390x ppc64le
+LD_LIBRARY_PATH=%{buildroot}/%{_libdir}/chapel/%{shortversion}/compiler/:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} \
+PATH=%{buildroot}/%{_bindir}:${PATH} \
+make check
+%endif
+
+%files
+%license LICENSE
+%license LICENSE.chapel
+%{_bindir}/chpl
+%{_datadir}/chapel/
+%{_libdir}/chapel/
+%{_libdir}/cmake/chpl
+
+%changelog
+%autochangelog 
diff --git a/util/packaging/rpm/fedorarawhide/chplconfig b/util/packaging/rpm/fedorarawhide/chplconfig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..041ac9ed7839
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util/packaging/rpm/fedorarawhide/chplconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# bash script to set environmnt variables
+
+export CHPL_HOST_COMPILER=gnu
+export CHPL_TARGET_COMPILER=gnu
+export CHPL_TARGET_CPU=none
+export CHPL_LOCALE_MODEL=flat
+export CHPL_TASKS=fifo
+# gasnet not yet packaged
+export CHPL_COMM=none
+export CHPL_TARGET_MEM=cstdlib
+#export CHPL_TARGET_JEMALLOC=system
+export CHPL_HOST_MEM=cstdlib
+#export CHPL_HOST_MIMALLOC=system
+#export CHPL_HOST_JEMALLOC=system
+#export CHPL_NETWORK_ATOMICS=ofi
+export CHPL_GMP=system
+export CHPL_HWLOC=system
+# No option to use system version, Chapel
+# specific changes not pushed upstream
+export CHPL_RE2=bundled
+export CHPL_AUX_FILESYS=none
+export CHPL_LLVM=system
+export CHPL_LLVM_SUPPORT=system
+export CHPL_UNWIND=system
+export CHPL_LIB_PIC=pic