diff --git a/elements/centos/environment.d/10-centos6-distro-name.bash b/elements/centos/environment.d/10-centos6-distro-name.bash
index 88d6a81f..633b7e84 100644
--- a/elements/centos/environment.d/10-centos6-distro-name.bash
+++ b/elements/centos/environment.d/10-centos6-distro-name.bash
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 export DISTRO_NAME=centos
+export DIB_RELEASE=${DIB_RELEASE:-GenericCloud-20141129_01}
diff --git a/elements/centos/root.d/10-centos6-cloud-image b/elements/centos/root.d/10-centos6-cloud-image
index 85f4d1d4..e6e1d67e 100755
--- a/elements/centos/root.d/10-centos6-cloud-image
+++ b/elements/centos/root.d/10-centos6-cloud-image
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ if [ -n "$DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE" ]; then
     BASE_IMAGE_FILE=$(basename $DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE)
     BASE_IMAGE_TAR=$BASE_IMAGE_FILE.tgz
 else
-    DIB_RELEASE=${DIB_RELEASE:-GenericCloud-20141129_01}
     DIB_CLOUD_IMAGES=${DIB_CLOUD_IMAGES:-http://cloud.centos.org/centos/6/images}
     BASE_IMAGE_FILE=${BASE_IMAGE_FILE:-CentOS-6-x86_64-$DIB_RELEASE.qcow2}
     BASE_IMAGE_TAR=$BASE_IMAGE_FILE.tgz