diff --git a/confluent_osdeploy/buildrpm b/confluent_osdeploy/buildrpm
index 91b947ee..531b49ff 100644
--- a/confluent_osdeploy/buildrpm
+++ b/confluent_osdeploy/buildrpm
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
-export VERSION=$(git describe --tags)
+VERSION=`git describe|cut -d- -f 1`
+NUMCOMMITS=`git describe|cut -d- -f 2`
+if [ "$NUMCOMMITS" != "$VERSION"  ]; then
+    VERSION=$VERSION.dev$NUMCOMMITS.g`git describe|cut -d- -f 3`
+fi
 sed -e "s/#VERSION#/$VERSION/" confluent_osdeploy.spec.tmpl > confluent_osdeploy.spec
 cd ..
 tar Jcvf confluent_osdeploy.tar.xz confluent_osdeploy
-mv $confluent_osdeploy.tar.xz ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
+mv confluent_osdeploy.tar.xz ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
 cd -
 rpmbuild -ba confluent_osdeploy.spec