diff --git a/packaging/FreeBSD-repo.sh b/packaging/FreeBSD-repo.sh
index 1ab8ac0..45722c2 100755
--- a/packaging/FreeBSD-repo.sh
+++ b/packaging/FreeBSD-repo.sh
@@ -100,6 +100,16 @@ mkdir "${PKG_ROOT}"
 mv "${TMP}/usr" "${PKG_ROOT}"
 
 VERSION=$(jq -r '.version' "${MANIFEST}")
+# if we've a tagged version (1.5.0), append the number of commits and a dummy hash
+VERSION_GOOD=$(echo $VERSION | grep -c '^[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+$')
+VERSION_WITH_COMMIT=$(echo $VERSION | grep -c '^[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.g[0-9a-fA-f]\+$')
+if [ $VERSION_GOOD -eq 0 -a $VERSION_WITH_COMMIT -eq 0 ]; then
+    die "version does not conform to (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH[.#NUM_COMMITS.g<HASH>])"
+fi
+if [ $VERSION_WITH_COMMIT -eq 0 ]; then
+    VERSION="${VERSION}.0.g0000000"
+fi
+
 NAME=$(jq -r '.name' "${MANIFEST}")
 FULL_VERSION="${VERSION}.${BUILD_TIME}.${SHA}"
 
diff --git a/packaging/check_versions.sh b/packaging/check_versions.sh
index 9f5784f..1b93100 100755
--- a/packaging/check_versions.sh
+++ b/packaging/check_versions.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,30 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
+# input in versions.txt is <v1> <v2> with v1 < v2.
+# v1 and v2 are of the form <version>-<date>-<hash>, where <version> includes:
+# - 2.0.0
+# - 2.0.0-10-gabcdef
+
+freebsd_sanitize_version () {
+    post=$(echo $1 | rev | cut -d '-' -f 1-2 | rev | sed -e 's/-/./g')
+    v=$(echo $1 | rev | cut -d '-' -f 3- | rev | sed -e 's/-/./g')
+    version_good=$(echo $v | grep -c '^[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+$')
+    version_with_commit=$(echo $v | grep -c '^[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+\.g[0-9a-fA-f]\+$')
+    if [ $version_good -eq 0 -a $version_with_commit -eq 0 ]; then
+        echo "invalid version $v";
+        exit 1;
+    fi
+    if [ $version_with_commit -eq 0 ]; then
+        v="${v}.0.g0000000"
+    fi
+    echo $v
+}
+
 while read version_a version_b; do
-	version_a=$(echo $version_a | sed -e 's/-/./g')
-	version_b=$(echo $version_b | sed -e 's/-/./g')
-	printf "%s %s %s\n" "$version_a" $(pkg version -t "$version_a" "$version_b") "$version_b"
+	version_a=$(freebsd_sanitize_version $version_a)
+	version_b=$(freebsd_sanitize_version $version_b)
+	result=$(pkg version -t "$version_a" "$version_b")
+	printf "%s %s %s\n" "$version_a" "$result" "$version_b"
 done < versions.txt
 
 while read version_a version_b; do
diff --git a/packaging/versions.txt b/packaging/versions.txt
index 920997b..f62c530 100644
--- a/packaging/versions.txt
+++ b/packaging/versions.txt
@@ -3,4 +3,6 @@
 2.0.0-10-gabcdef-20220202-hahh 2.0.0-11-g123456-20220201-abcd
 2.0.0-10-gabcdef-20220202-hahh 2.0.0-110-g123456-20220201-abcd
 2.0.0-11-g123456-20220201-abcd 2.0.1-20220120-abcd
-3.0-20230101-abcd 3.0.1-20230204-bdbd
+3.0.0-20230101-abcd 3.0.1-20230204-bdbd
+1.5.0-20220516-a0d5a2 1.5.0-3-g26b5a59-20220527-0bc180
+1.5.0-3-g26b5a59-20220527-0bc180 1.5.1-20220527-0bc180