diff --git a/Dockerfile.dapper b/Dockerfile.dapper
index 278ef0d2..9107f661 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.dapper
+++ b/Dockerfile.dapper
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 FROM registry.suse.com/bci/golang:1.23
 
 ARG DAPPER_HOST_ARCH
+ARG SRC_BRANCH=main
+ARG SRC_TAG
 ARG http_proxy
 ARG https_proxy
 
@@ -11,6 +13,8 @@ ENV DAPPER_ENV TAG REPO DRONE_REPO DRONE_PULL_REQUEST DRONE_COMMIT_REF
 ENV DAPPER_OUTPUT bin coverage.out
 ENV DAPPER_RUN_ARGS --privileged -v /dev:/host/dev -v /proc:/host/proc
 ENV DAPPER_SOURCE /go/src/github.com/longhorn/longhorn-share-manager
+ENV SRC_BRANCH ${SRC_BRANCH}
+ENV SRC_TAG ${SRC_TAG}
 
 ENV GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION="v1.60.3"
 
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 78839b9b..973a11e4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 TARGETS := $(shell ls scripts)
 
+export SRC_BRANCH := $(shell bash -c 'wget -q "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/longhorn/dep-versions/main/scripts/common.sh" -O build-common.sh && source build-common.sh && get_branch')
+export SRC_TAG := $(shell git tag --points-at HEAD | head -n 1)
+
 .dapper:
 	@echo Downloading dapper
 	@curl -sL https://releases.rancher.com/dapper/latest/dapper-`uname -s`-`uname -m` > .dapper.tmp
diff --git a/scripts/package b/scripts/package
index fc21f872..a7c3ce1b 100755
--- a/scripts/package
+++ b/scripts/package
@@ -25,42 +25,11 @@ TAG=${TAG:-"v${APIVERSION}_`date -u +%Y%m%d`"}
 REPO=${REPO:-longhornio}
 IMAGE=${REPO}/${PROJECT}:${TAG}
 
-function convert_version_to_major_minor_x() {
-    local version="$1"
-    if [[ "$version" =~ ^v([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)\. ]]; then
-        echo "v${BASH_REMATCH[1]}.${BASH_REMATCH[2]}.x"
-    else
-        echo "Invalid version format: $version"
-    fi
-}
-
-function get_branch() {
-  local version_file="version"
-  if [[ ! -f $version_file ]]; then
-    echo "Error: Version file '$version_file' not found."
-    exit 1
-  fi
-
-  local version=$(cat "$version_file")
-  local branch=$(convert_version_to_major_minor_x "$version")
-
-  # Fetch versions.json from the appropriate branch, fallback to main
-  wget -q "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/longhorn/dep-versions/${branch}/versions.json" -O /versions.json
-  if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
-    echo "${branch}"
-  else
-    echo "main"
-  fi
-}
-
-SRC_BRANCH=$(get_branch)
-SRC_TAG=$(git tag --points-at HEAD | head -n 1)
-
 # update base image to get latest changes
 BASE_IMAGE=`grep FROM package/Dockerfile | grep -v AS | awk '{print $2}'`
 docker pull ${BASE_IMAGE}
 
-echo "Building image ${IMAGE} based on ${BASE_IMAGE}"
+echo "Building image ${IMAGE} based on ${BASE_IMAGE} with ARCH=${ARCH} SRC_BRANCH=${SRC_BRANCH} SRC_TAG=${SRC_TAG}"
 buildx build \
   --load \
   --build-arg ARCH="${ARCH}" \