diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index a08b6aa..aa51710 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ jobs:
                 run: ./mvnw --batch-mode verify
 
             -   name: Re-run integration tests in opaque testing mode
-                run: ./mvnw --batch-mode verify -DopaqueTesting=true
+                run: ./mvnw --batch-mode verify -DopaqueTesting=true # TODO migrate this to a maven fail-safe execution
 
             -   name: Publish Unit Test Results
                 uses: EnricoMi/publish-unit-test-result-action@v2
diff --git a/src/packaging/fedora/symly.spec b/src/jreleaser/distributions/rpm-spec/symly.spec
similarity index 85%
rename from src/packaging/fedora/symly.spec
rename to src/jreleaser/distributions/rpm-spec/symly.spec
index 0bdf1bc..c9e73fd 100644
--- a/src/packaging/fedora/symly.spec
+++ b/src/jreleaser/distributions/rpm-spec/symly.spec
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/java-packaging-howto/packaging_maven_project/
+
 Name:      symly
 Version:   ${version}
 Release:   1%{?dist}
@@ -8,7 +10,7 @@ URL:       https://github.com/loicrouchon/symly
 Source0:   https://github.com/loicrouchon/symly/archive/refs/tags/v${version}.tar.gz
 
 BuildArch: noarch
-BuildRequires: java-17-openjdk-devel, ant, picocli
+BuildRequires: java-latest-openjdk-devel, ant, picocli
 Requires: java-latest-openjdk-headless, picocli
 
 %description
@@ -17,15 +19,14 @@ It replicates and maintains a file tree structure of one
 or more repository layers into a directory by creating
 symbolic links.
 
-
 %prep
-
 %setup -q -n symly-${version}
+
 %build
-ant -f src/packaging/fedora/build.xml
+ant -f tools/packaging/fedora/build.xml -Dproject.version="${version}" -v
 
 %install
-%define distdir build/ant/fedora/distributions
+%define distdir target/distributions/fedora
 find .
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/bin %{buildroot}/usr/share/java/%{name} %{buildroot}/usr/share/man/man1/
 install -p -m 755 %{distdir}/usr/bin/%{name} %{buildroot}/usr/bin/%{name}
diff --git a/src/packaging/ant/assemble-jar.xml b/src/packaging/ant/assemble-jar.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index ae34e47..0000000
--- a/src/packaging/ant/assemble-jar.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-<project>
-    <property file="${basedir}/src/packaging/ant/properties.properties" />
-    <import file="${basedir}/src/packaging/ant/clean.xml" />
-    <import file="${basedir}/src/packaging/ant/compile.xml" />
-    <import file="${basedir}/src/packaging/ant/jar.xml" />
-    <import file="${basedir}/src/packaging/ant/manpage.xml" />
-</project>
diff --git a/src/packaging/ant/compile-classpath.xml b/src/packaging/ant/compile-classpath.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1810b6e..0000000
--- a/src/packaging/ant/compile-classpath.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-<project>
-    <javac includeantruntime="false" sourcepath="" srcdir="src/main/java" destdir="${build-dir.classes}"
-        release="17">
-        <exclude name="module-info.java" />
-        <classpath location="${project.classpath}" />
-    </javac>
-</project>
diff --git a/src/packaging/ant/compile-module-path.xml b/src/packaging/ant/compile-module-path.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index e4f6407..0000000
--- a/src/packaging/ant/compile-module-path.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-<project>
-    <javac includeantruntime="false" srcdir="src/main/java" destdir="${build-dir.classes}" release="17">
-        <modulepath location="${project.module-path}" />
-    </javac>
-</project>
diff --git a/src/packaging/ant/compile.xml b/src/packaging/ant/compile.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index ece20ee..0000000
--- a/src/packaging/ant/compile.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-<project default="compile">
-    <target name="compile" depends="clean">
-        <mkdir dir="${build-dir.classes}" />
-        <copy todir="${build-dir.classes}">
-            <fileset dir="src/main/resources" />
-            <filterset begintoken="${" endtoken="}" filtersfile="gradle.properties" />
-        </copy>
-        <ant antfile="${basedir}/src/packaging/ant/compile-${compile.mode}.xml" />
-    </target>
-</project>
diff --git a/src/packaging/ant/properties.properties b/src/packaging/ant/properties.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index b649886..0000000
--- a/src/packaging/ant/properties.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-project.name=symly
-
-build-dir=build/ant/${distribution}
-build-dir.classes=${build-dir}/classes
-build-dir.jars=${build-dir}/jars
-build-dir.distributions=${build-dir}/distributions
-
-manpage.manpage.dir=src/docs/resources/manpage/manpage
-manpage.gz.dir=${build-dir}/docs/manpage/gz
-
-project.jar-file=${build-dir.jars}/${project.name}.jar
-project.module-name=org.${project.name}
-project.main-class=org.${project.name}.cli.Main
-project.main-module-path=${project.jar-file}
-
-project.commands.main-command=org.${project.name}.cli.MainCommand
-project.commands.bean-factory=org.${project.name}.cli.BeanFactory
diff --git a/src/packaging/debian/build.xml b/src/packaging/debian/build.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index dd5311b..0000000
--- a/src/packaging/debian/build.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-<project basedir="../../.." default="assemble">
-    <property name="distribution" value="debian" />
-    <property name="project.classpath" value="/usr/share/java/picocli.jar" />
-    <property name="compile.mode" value="classpath" />
-
-    <import file="${basedir}/src/packaging/ant/assemble-jar.xml" />
-
-    <target name="assemble" depends="jar, manpage" description="generate the distribution">
-        <mkdir dir="${build-dir.distributions}" />
-        <copy todir="${build-dir.distributions}/usr/bin">
-            <file file="src/packaging/debian/usr/bin/${project.name}" />
-        </copy>
-        <copy todir="${build-dir.distributions}/usr/share/java">
-            <fileset dir="${build-dir.jars}" />
-        </copy>
-        <copy todir="${build-dir.distributions}/usr/share/man/man1">
-            <fileset dir="${manpage.gz.dir}" />
-        </copy>
-    </target>
-</project>
diff --git a/src/packaging/debian/usr/bin/symly b/src/packaging/debian/usr/bin/symly
deleted file mode 100755
index 87e370e..0000000
--- a/src/packaging/debian/usr/bin/symly
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env sh
-set -e
-
-JAVA_CMD="$(jvm-finder --min-java-version 17)"
-MODULE_PATH=/usr/share/java/symly.jar:/usr/share/java/picocli.jar
-MAIN_CLASS="org.symly.cli.Main"
-
-exec "{$JAVA_CMD}" \
-    --class-path "$MODULE_PATH" \
-    "${MAIN_CLASS}" \
-    "$@"
diff --git a/src/packaging/fedora/usr/bin/symly b/src/packaging/fedora/usr/bin/symly
deleted file mode 100755
index 3637855..0000000
--- a/src/packaging/fedora/usr/bin/symly
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env sh
-
-if [ -d "/usr/lib/jvm" ]; then
-    JVM="/usr/lib/jvm/$(ls /usr/lib/jvm | grep -E "java-[0-9]+" | sort -V -r | head -n 1)"
-    if [ $JVM != "/usr/lib/jvm/" ]; then
-        JAVA_HOME=$JVM
-    fi
-fi
-
-JAVACMD="${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java"
-MODULE_PATH=/usr/share/java/symly/symly.jar:/usr/share/java/picocli/picocli.jar
-MAIN_MODULE="org.symly/org.symly.cli.Main"
-
-exec "$JAVACMD" \
-    --module-path "$MODULE_PATH" \
-    --module "${MAIN_MODULE}" \
-    "$@"
diff --git a/src/packaging/homebrew/bin/symly b/src/packaging/homebrew/bin/symly
deleted file mode 100755
index 142ed7a..0000000
--- a/src/packaging/homebrew/bin/symly
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env sh
-if [ "$HOMEBREW_PREFIX" != "" ] && [ -d "$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/openjdk" ]; then
-    export JAVA_HOME="$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/openjdk"
-fi
-"$(dirname "$(realpath "$0")")/../libexec/bin/symly" "$@"
diff --git a/src/packaging/linux/usr/bin/symly b/src/packaging/linux/usr/bin/symly
deleted file mode 100755
index 6601dc1..0000000
--- a/src/packaging/linux/usr/bin/symly
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env sh
-
-if [ -d "/usr/lib/jvm" ]; then
-  JVM="/usr/lib/jvm/$(ls /usr/lib/jvm | grep -E "java-[0-9]+" | sort -V -r | head -n 1)"
-  if [ $JVM != "/usr/lib/jvm/" ]; then
-    export JAVA_HOME=$JVM
-  fi
-fi
-/usr/share/symly/bin/symly "$@"
diff --git a/tools/packaging/ant/assemble-jar.xml b/tools/packaging/ant/assemble-jar.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e7c26bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/packaging/ant/assemble-jar.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<project>
+    <property file="${basedir}/tools/packaging/ant/properties.properties" />
+    <import file="${basedir}/tools/packaging/ant/clean.xml" />
+    <import file="${basedir}/tools/packaging/ant/compile.xml" />
+    <import file="${basedir}/tools/packaging/ant/jar.xml" />
+    <import file="${basedir}/tools/packaging/ant/manpage.xml" />
+</project>
diff --git a/src/packaging/ant/clean.xml b/tools/packaging/ant/clean.xml
similarity index 100%
rename from src/packaging/ant/clean.xml
rename to tools/packaging/ant/clean.xml
diff --git a/tools/packaging/ant/compile.xml b/tools/packaging/ant/compile.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4276827
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/packaging/ant/compile.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<project default="compile">
+    <target name="compile" depends="clean">
+        <mkdir dir="${build-dir.classes}" />
+        <copy todir="${build-dir.classes}">
+            <fileset dir="src/main/resources" />
+            <filterset begintoken="${" endtoken="}">
+                <filter token="project.version" value="${project.version}" />
+            </filterset>
+        </copy>
+        <javac includeantruntime="false" sourcepath="" srcdir="src/main/java" destdir="${build-dir.classes}"
+               release="17">
+            <exclude name="module-info.java" />
+            <classpath location="${project.classpath}" />
+        </javac>
+    </target>
+</project>
diff --git a/src/packaging/ant/jar.xml b/tools/packaging/ant/jar.xml
similarity index 100%
rename from src/packaging/ant/jar.xml
rename to tools/packaging/ant/jar.xml
diff --git a/src/packaging/ant/manpage.xml b/tools/packaging/ant/manpage.xml
similarity index 100%
rename from src/packaging/ant/manpage.xml
rename to tools/packaging/ant/manpage.xml
diff --git a/tools/packaging/ant/properties.properties b/tools/packaging/ant/properties.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5904c1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/packaging/ant/properties.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+project.name=symly
+
+build.properties=target/ant/properties.properties
+build-dir=target/ant/${distribution}
+build-dir.classes=${build-dir}/classes
+build-dir.jars=${build-dir}/jars
+build-dir.distributions=target/distributions/${distribution}
+
+manpage.manpage.dir=src/docs/resources/manpage/manpage
+manpage.gz.dir=${build-dir}/docs/manpage/gz
+
+project.jar-file=${build-dir.jars}/${project.name}.jar
+project.main-class=org.${project.name}.cli.Main
+project.java.options=-XX:+NeverActAsServerClassMachine
diff --git a/tools/packaging/fedora/Dockerfile b/tools/packaging/fedora/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c20e438
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/packaging/fedora/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+FROM fedora:39
+
+# Runtime dependencies
+RUN dnf install -y \
+      java-latest-openjdk-headless \
+      picocli \
+    && dnf autoremove -y
+
+# Additional dependencies for build
+RUN dnf install -y \
+      java-latest-openjdk-devel \
+      ant \
+      rpmdevtools \
+    && dnf autoremove -y
+
+# Additional dependencies for build
+RUN dnf install -y \
+      git \
+    && dnf autoremove -y
+
+VOLUME /workspace
+WORKDIR /workspace
diff --git a/tools/packaging/fedora/Makefile b/tools/packaging/fedora/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..debbedc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/packaging/fedora/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env make
+HOST_ROOT_DIR=$(shell pwd)/../../..
+ROOT_DIR=/workspace
+PACKAGING_DIR=$(ROOT_DIR)/tools/packaging/fedora
+
+.PHONY: build
+build:
+	podman run -ti \
+		-v "$(HOST_ROOT_DIR):$(ROOT_DIR)" \
+		symly/fedora-build-env:latest \
+		"$(PACKAGING_DIR)/build-from-spec.sh"
+
+.PHONY: build-shell
+build-shell:
+	podman run -ti \
+		-v "$(HOST_ROOT_DIR):$(ROOT_DIR)" \
+		symly/fedora-build-env:latest
+
+.PHONY: build-env
+build-env:
+	podman build -t symly/fedora-build-env:latest .
diff --git a/tools/packaging/fedora/build-from-spec.sh b/tools/packaging/fedora/build-from-spec.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2b15d65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/packaging/fedora/build-from-spec.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+set -x
+
+VERSION="0.11.0r"
+
+DIR=$(dirname "$0")
+ROOT_DIR="$DIR/../../.."
+ARCHIVE_NAME="symly-$VERSION"
+ARCHIVE="$ARCHIVE_NAME.tar.gz"
+SPEC="rpmbuild/SPECS/symly.spec"
+
+cd "$ROOT_DIR"
+SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH="$(git log -1 --pretty=%ct)"
+export SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH
+echo "SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH: $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH"
+
+rm -rf "$ROOT_DIR/.wip/$ARCHIVE_NAME"
+mkdir "$ROOT_DIR/.wip/$ARCHIVE_NAME"
+cp -R \
+    $ROOT_DIR/docs \
+    $ROOT_DIR/LICENSE \
+    $ROOT_DIR/pom.xml \
+    $ROOT_DIR/src \
+    $ROOT_DIR/tools \
+    "$ROOT_DIR/.wip/$ARCHIVE_NAME"
+
+cd "$ROOT_DIR/.wip"
+tar cvf "$ARCHIVE" "$ARCHIVE_NAME"
+
+cd ~
+rm -rf ~/rpmbuild
+rpmdev-setuptree
+
+sed "s/\${version}/$VERSION/" < "$ROOT_DIR/src/jreleaser/distributions/rpm-spec/symly.spec" > $SPEC
+#cat "$ROOT_DIR/src/jreleaser/distributions/rpm-spec/symly.spec" | sed "s/\${version}/$VERSION/" > $SPEC
+cp "$ROOT_DIR/.wip/symly-${VERSION}.tar.gz" "rpmbuild/SOURCES/v${VERSION}.tar.gz"
+
+rm -rf /workspace/.wip/rpmbuild/
+rpmbuild -bb "$SPEC" ; cp -R rpmbuild /workspace/.wip/rpmbuild
+
+bash
diff --git a/src/packaging/fedora/build.xml b/tools/packaging/fedora/build.xml
similarity index 60%
rename from src/packaging/fedora/build.xml
rename to tools/packaging/fedora/build.xml
index ea8feb6..6dd757b 100644
--- a/src/packaging/fedora/build.xml
+++ b/tools/packaging/fedora/build.xml
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 <project basedir="../../.." default="assemble">
     <property name="distribution" value="fedora" />
-    <property name="project.module-path" value="/usr/share/java/picocli/picocli.jar" />
-    <property name="compile.mode" value="module-path" />
+    <property name="project.classpath" value="/usr/share/java/picocli/picocli.jar" />
 
-    <import file="${basedir}/src/packaging/ant/assemble-jar.xml" />
+    <import file="${basedir}/tools/packaging/ant/assemble-jar.xml" />
 
     <target name="assemble" depends="jar, manpage" description="generate the distribution">
         <mkdir dir="${build-dir.distributions}" />
@@ -11,7 +10,11 @@
             <file file="LICENSE" />
         </copy>
         <copy todir="${build-dir.distributions}/usr/bin">
-            <file file="src/packaging/fedora/usr/bin/${project.name}" />
+            <file file="tools/packaging/fedora/usr/bin/${project.name}" />
+            <filterset begintoken="${" endtoken="}">
+                <filter token="symly.java.options" value="${project.java.options}" />
+                <filter token="symly.main.class" value="${project.main-class}" />
+            </filterset>
         </copy>
         <copy todir="${build-dir.distributions}/usr/share/java/${project.name}">
             <fileset dir="${build-dir.jars}" />
diff --git a/tools/packaging/fedora/usr/bin/symly b/tools/packaging/fedora/usr/bin/symly
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..0b3b916
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/packaging/fedora/usr/bin/symly
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+set -e
+
+if [ -d "/usr/lib/jvm" ]; then
+    JVM="/usr/lib/jvm/$(ls /usr/lib/jvm | grep -E "java-[0-9]+" | sort -V -r | head -n 1)"
+    if [ $JVM != "/usr/lib/jvm/" ]; then
+        JAVA_HOME="$JVM"
+    fi
+fi
+
+JAVA_CMD="$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"
+CLASSPATH=/usr/share/java/symly/symly.jar:/usr/share/java/picocli/picocli.jar
+
+exec "$JAVA_CMD" \
+    --class-path "$CLASSPATH" \
+    ${symly.java.options} \
+    ${symly.main.class} \
+    "$@"