diff --git a/gdb-6.3-rh-testversion-20041202.patch b/gdb-6.3-rh-testversion-20041202.patch
index 82c693b..b8c7940 100644
--- a/gdb-6.3-rh-testversion-20041202.patch
+++ b/gdb-6.3-rh-testversion-20041202.patch
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.gdb/selftest.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.gdb/selftest
  	-re ".\[0-9\]+ = +.+ +0x.*\[0-9.\]+.*$gdb_prompt $" {
  	    pass "printed version with cast"
  	}
-+	-re ".\[0-9\]+ = .(Fedora|Red Hat Enterprise Linux) \[\\(\\)0-9.a-z\\-\]+.*$gdb_prompt $" {
++	-re ".\[0-9\]+ = .(Fedora Linux|Red Hat Enterprise Linux) \[\\(\\)0-9.a-z\\-\]+.*$gdb_prompt $" {
 +	    pass "printed version Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux only"
 +	}
      }
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ diff --git a/gdb/top.c b/gdb/top.c
    struct internalvar *minor_version_var = create_internalvar ("_gdb_minor");
    int vmajor = 0, vminor = 0, vrevision = 0;
 -  sscanf (version, "%d.%d.%d", &vmajor, &vminor, &vrevision);
-+  sscanf (version, "Fedora %d.%d.%d", &vmajor, &vminor, &vrevision);
++  sscanf (version, "%*[^0123456789]%d.%d.%d", &vmajor, &vminor, &vrevision);
    set_internalvar_integer (major_version_var, vmajor);
    set_internalvar_integer (minor_version_var, vminor + (vrevision > 0));
  }
diff --git a/gdb.spec b/gdb.spec
index 03ef822..fe1c2da 100644
--- a/gdb.spec
+++ b/gdb.spec
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Version: 12.1
 
 # The release always contains a leading reserved number, start it at 1.
 # `upstream' is not a part of `name' to stay fully rpm dependencies compatible for the testing.
-Release: 6%{?dist}
+Release: 7%{?dist}
 
 License: GPLv3+ and GPLv3+ with exceptions and GPLv2+ and GPLv2+ with exceptions and GPL+ and LGPLv2+ and LGPLv3+ and BSD and Public Domain and GFDL
 # Do not provide URL for snapshots as the file lasts there only for 2 days.
@@ -1189,6 +1189,10 @@ fi
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Fri Jan 27 2023 Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com> - 12.1-7
+- Tweak gdb-6.3-rh-testversion-20041202.patch so that $_gdb_major
+  and $_gdb_minor will be obtained correctly.
+
 * Mon Dec 19 2022 Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
 - Backport upstream commits 38665d717a3 and c3efaf0afd9 to fix RHBZ
   2152431.