Makefile: make VERSION not have v prefix

Signed-off-by: Dr. Jan-Philip Gehrcke <[email protected]>

Author: jgehrcke

deployments/container/Makefile

@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ ifeq ($(IMAGE_NAME),)
 IMAGE_NAME := $(REGISTRY)/$(DRIVER_NAME)
 endif
 
-IMAGE_VERSION := $(VERSION)
+# Here we would like to use the v prefix.
+IMAGE_VERSION := $(vVERSION)
 
 IMAGE_TAG ?= $(IMAGE_VERSION)-$(DIST)
 IMAGE = $(IMAGE_NAME):$(IMAGE_TAG)

versions.mk

@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ MODULE := github.com/NVIDIA/$(DRIVER_NAME)
 
 REGISTRY ?= nvcr.io/nvidia/cloud-native
 
-VERSION  ?= v25.3.0-rc.1
+# semver-compliant, i.e. w/o a v prefix
+VERSION  ?= 25.3.0-rc.1
 
 # vVERSION represents the version with a guaranteed v-prefix
 vVERSION := v$(VERSION:v%=%)