Please follow the following steps (TODO: Automate these steps) 0. Update package version in AC_INIT (configure.in) 1. Tag the current sources in trunk to the specified version 1. Run autoconf to generate the configure file again (on changing configure.in) 2. Run configure with --prefix= default is /usr/local 3. This step should generate a. Makefile b. libcgroup.spec 4. To build the RPM, carry out the following steps a. Create a tag with the same version as specified in step 0 a. Run mktarball b. copy tarball and spec file to correct place in the RPMBUILD c. Build an rpm of the spec file