diff --git a/.github/workflows/rpm-build-and-test.yml b/.github/workflows/rpm-build-and-test.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e6b1f592
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/rpm-build-and-test.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+name: RPM Build and Test
+
+env:
+  # TODO: we really need to define a list of supported versions (ideally it's no more than 2)
+  #       build is done on the lowest version and test on the highest with a "sanity test"
+  #       stage done on all versions in the list ecept the highest
+  EL8_BUILD_VERSION: 8.6
+  EL8_VERSION: 8.8
+  EL9_BUILD_VERSION: 9.4
+  EL9_VERSION: 9.4
+  LEAP15_VERSION: 15.5
+  # Which distros to build for
+  DISTROS: el8 el9 leap15
+  TEST_TAG: pr
+  PACKAGING_DIR: .
+  NAME: argobots
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      pr-repos:
+        description: 'Any PR-repos that you want included in this build'
+        required: false
+      commit-message:
+        description: 'Commit message to use rather than the one from git'
+        required: false
+      rpm-test-version:
+        description: 'RPM version to test'
+        required: false
+  pull_request:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+
+concurrency:
+  group: rpm-build-and-test-${{ github.head_ref  || github.run_id }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+defaults:
+  run:
+    shell: bash --noprofile --norc -ueo pipefail {0}
+
+permissions: {}
+
+jobs:
+  Variables:
+    # What a dumb jobs this is
+    # Needed because of https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/26671
+    # Ideally want to be able to use:
+    # with:
+    #    NAME: ${{ env.NAME }}
+    # in the Call-RPM-Build job but the above issue prevents it
+    name: Compute outputs
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, light]
+    outputs:
+      NAME: ${{ env.NAME }}
+      DISTROS: ${{ env.DISTROS }}
+      EL8_BUILD_VERSION: ${{ env.EL8_BUILD_VERSION }}
+      EL9_BUILD_VERSION: ${{ env.EL9_BUILD_VERSION }}
+      LEAP15_VERSION: ${{ env.LEAP15_VERSION }}
+      PACKAGING_DIR: ${{ env.PACKAGING_DIR }}
+      TEST_TAG: ${{ env.TEST_TAG }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Echo
+        if: false
+        run: echo
+
+  Call-RPM-Build:
+    name: Build RPM
+    needs: Variables
+    if: inputs.rpm-test-version == ''
+    permissions:
+      statuses: write
+    uses: daos-stack/actions-lib/.github/workflows/rpm-build.yml@v1
+    secrets: inherit
+    with:
+      NAME: ${{ needs.Variables.outputs.NAME }}
+      DISTROS: ${{ needs.Variables.outputs.DISTROS }}
+      EL8_BUILD_VERSION: ${{ needs.Variables.outputs.EL8_BUILD_VERSION }}
+      EL9_BUILD_VERSION: ${{ needs.Variables.outputs.EL9_BUILD_VERSION }}
+      LEAP15_VERSION: ${{ needs.Variables.outputs.LEAP15_VERSION }}
+      PACKAGING_DIR: ${{ needs.Variables.outputs.PACKAGING_DIR}}
+      # RUN_GHA: true
+
+  Call-RPM-Test:
+    # TODO: investigate how cancelling this can cancel the downstream job
+    name: Test RPMs with DAOS
+    needs: [Variables, Call-RPM-Build]
+    uses: daos-stack/actions-lib/.github/workflows/rpm-test.yml@v1
+    # it would be better if we could do this in rpm-test.yml but we can't because it causes:
+    # The nested job 'Test-with-DAOS' is requesting 'issues: write', but is only allowed
+    # 'issues: none'.
+    permissions:
+      issues: write
+    secrets: inherit
+    with:
+      NAME: ${{ needs.Variables.outputs.NAME }}
+      DISTROS: ${{ needs.Variables.outputs.DISTROS }}
+      TEST_TAG: ${{ needs.Variables.outputs.TEST_TAG }}
+      RUN_GHA: ${{ needs.Call-RPM-Build.outputs.run-gha == 'true' }}
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6daaa65c..9674066f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 _topdir/
 *.tar.gz
-*-workspace
\ No newline at end of file
+*-workspace
+mock_result/
diff --git a/.yamllint.yaml b/.yamllint.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cd8fe31a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.yamllint.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Yamllint configuration file, used by github actions and commit hooks.
+#
+# The yamllint tool will use .yamllint in preference to this file and it is in .gitignore so users
+# can create one locally to overrule these settings for local commit hooks.
+
+extends: default
+
+rules:
+  line-length:
+    max: 100
+  indentation:
+    spaces: 2
+  truthy:
+    allowed-values: ['true', 'false', 'True', 'False']
+    check-keys: false
+  document-start:
+    present: false
+  document-end:
+    present: false
+
+ignore: |
+  /_topdir/
+  /.git/
diff --git a/packaging/get_base_branch b/packaging/get_base_branch
index 27515a71..75eb90ba 100755
--- a/packaging/get_base_branch
+++ b/packaging/get_base_branch
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 set -eux -o pipefail
 IFS=' ' read -r -a add_bases <<< "${1:-}"
-origin=origin
+origin="${ORIGIN:-origin}"
 mapfile -t all_bases < <(echo "master"
                          git branch -r | sed -ne "/^  $origin\\/release\\/[0-9]/s/^  $origin\\///p")
 all_bases+=("${add_bases[@]}")