diff --git a/confluent_osdeploy/buildrpm b/confluent_osdeploy/buildrpm
index 6bd1d419..9e9cb582 100755
--- a/confluent_osdeploy/buildrpm
+++ b/confluent_osdeploy/buildrpm
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 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`
+    LASTNUM=$(echo $VERSION|rev|cut -d . -f 1|rev)
+    LASTNUM=$((LASTNUM+1))
+    FIRSTPART=$(echo $VERSION|rev|cut -d . -f 2- |rev)
+    VERSION=${FIRSTPART}.${LASTNUM}
+    VERSION=$VERSION~dev$NUMCOMMITS+`git describe|cut -d- -f 3`
 fi
 sed -e "s/#VERSION#/$VERSION/" confluent_osdeploy.spec.tmpl > confluent_osdeploy.spec
 cd ..
diff --git a/confluent_osdeploy/buildrpm-aarch64 b/confluent_osdeploy/buildrpm-aarch64
index 83ffc519..c269284b 100644
--- a/confluent_osdeploy/buildrpm-aarch64
+++ b/confluent_osdeploy/buildrpm-aarch64
@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@ cd $(dirname $0)
 VERSION=`git describe|cut -d- -f 1`
 NUMCOMMITS=`git describe|cut -d- -f 2`
 if [ "$NUMCOMMITS" != "$VERSION"  ]; then
-    VERSION=$VERSION.dev$NUMCOMMITS.g`git describe|cut -d- -f 3`
+    LASTNUM=$(echo $VERSION|rev|cut -d . -f 1|rev)
+    LASTNUM=$((LASTNUM+1))
+    FIRSTPART=$(echo $VERSION|rev|cut -d . -f 2- |rev)
+    VERSION=${FIRSTPART}.${LASTNUM}
+    VERSION=$VERSION~dev$NUMCOMMITS+`git describe|cut -d- -f 3`
 fi
 sed -e "s/#VERSION#/$VERSION/" confluent_osdeploy-aarch64.spec.tmpl > confluent_osdeploy-aarch64.spec
 cd ..