diff --git a/sbin/ifupdown2 b/sbin/ifupdown2
index 3a56ade..a70f887 100755
--- a/sbin/ifupdown2
+++ b/sbin/ifupdown2
@@ -15,10 +15,11 @@ import StringIO
 import logging
 import logging.handlers
 import resource
-import pkg_resources
 from ifupdown.ifupdownmain import *
 from ifupdown.utils import *
 
+IFUPDOWN2_VERSION = '1.1-cl3u9'
+
 lockfile="/run/network/.lock"
 configfile="/etc/network/ifupdown2/ifupdown2.conf"
 configmap_g=None
@@ -397,10 +398,9 @@ def update_ifreload_argparser(argparser):
 def update_common_argparser(argparser):
     ''' general parsing rules '''
 
-    package = pkg_resources.get_distribution("ifupdown2")
     argparser.add_argument('-V', '--version',
                 action='version',
-                version='ifupdown2:%(prog)s ' + package.version,
+                version='ifupdown2:%(prog)s ' + IFUPDOWN2_VERSION,
                 help='display current ifupdown2 version')
 
 def parse_args(argsv, op):