diff --git a/git-cvs2git.sh b/git-cvs2git.sh
index 91ed59c..49f9a32 100755
--- a/git-cvs2git.sh
+++ b/git-cvs2git.sh
@@ -757,7 +757,10 @@ git push --force -u $QUIET origin master
 
 # Now create the version and release tag for these files
 RELEASE=`rpm --queryformat '%{release}\n' --specfile $NAME.spec | head -n 1`
-TAG=$VERSION-$RELEASE
+# Release is not reliable - if you run on Rocky it comes back EL8, centos 7  - EL7
+# so - confusing!!
+# for now - take out the RELEASE from the tag
+TAG=$VERSION
 git tag -a $TAG -m "$COMMENT"
 git push origin $TAG $QUIET