diff --git a/mkosi.spec b/mkosi.spec
index 90ea838..1e940ad 100644
--- a/mkosi.spec
+++ b/mkosi.spec
@@ -94,9 +94,17 @@ Mkosi can boot an image via QEMU or systemd-nspawn, or simply start a shell in
 chroot, burn the image to a device, connect to a running VM via ssh, extract
 logs and coredumps, and also serve an image over HTTP.
 
-This package also provides a kernel-install plugin which allows mkosi to be used
-to build initrds and UKIs. Note that the kernel-install plugin is not enabled
-by default and has to be enabled explicitly in /etc/kernel/install.conf.
+%package initrd
+Summary:       Build initrds locally using mkosi
+Requires:      %{name} = %{version}-%{release}
+Requires:      (dnf5 or dnf)
+
+%description initrd
+This package provides the plugin for kernel-install to build initrds with
+mkosi locally.
+
+After the package is installed, the plugin can be enabled by writing
+'initrd_generator=mkosi-initrd' to '/etc/kernel/install.conf'.
 
 %prep
 %autosetup -p1
@@ -117,7 +125,11 @@ mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1
 ln -s -t %{buildroot}%{_mandir}/man1/ \
          ../../../..%{python3_sitelib}/mkosi/resources/mkosi.1
 
-install -Dt %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/lib/kernel/install.d/ kernel-install/50-mkosi.install
+# Install the kernel-install plugin
+install -Dt %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/lib/kernel/install.d/ \
+         kernel-install/50-mkosi.install
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/lib/mkosi-initrd
+mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/mkosi-initrd
 
 %files -f %pyproject_files
 %license LICENSE
@@ -126,6 +138,11 @@ install -Dt %{buildroot}%{_prefix}/lib/kernel/install.d/ kernel-install/50-mkosi
 %_mandir/man1/mkosi.1*
 /usr/lib/kernel/install.d/50-mkosi.install
 
+%files initrd
+%_prefix/lib/kernel/install.d/50-mkosi.install
+%ghost %dir %{_prefix}/lib/mkosi-initrd
+%ghost %dir %{_sysconfdir}/mkosi-initrd
+
 %check
 %if %{with tests}
 %pytest tests/ -v