diff --git a/Docker/CMakeLists.txt b/Docker/CMakeLists.txt
index 82d3a2e3d991f6f069fb65799f643299caa52c4e..7d03378f78fb0212e7c4e4147b4b61c0c7909207 100644
--- a/Docker/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Docker/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,17 @@
 # $Id$
 
-lofar_package(Docker 1.0)
+lofar_package(Docker 1.0 DEPENDS Common)
 
-include(LofarFindPackage)
-lofar_find_package(Subversion REQUIRED)
+include(LofarPackageVersion)
+
+# Build version info
+set(docker_LIB_SRCS
+  Package__Version.cc
+)
+
+lofar_add_library(docker ${docker_LIB_SRCS})
+
+lofar_add_bin_program(versiondocker versiondocker.cc)
 
 #
 # For given directories, we generate the Dockerfile
@@ -19,14 +27,9 @@ set(DOCKER_TEMPLATE_DIRS
   lofar-pipeline
   lofar-outputproc)
 
-# Create our template engine, using build-specific info
-configure_file(
-  ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/template.in
-  ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/template @ONLY)
-
 # Note: "template" only works as long as the sources are still around,
 # since it uses svn to query information from them.
-lofar_add_bin_scripts(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/template)
+lofar_add_bin_scripts(template)
 lofar_add_sbin_scripts(docker-build-all.sh)
 
 # Convert Dockerfile.tmpl -> Dockerfile in ${DOCKER_TEMPLATE_DIRS}
@@ -39,8 +42,8 @@ foreach(_dir ${DOCKER_TEMPLATE_DIRS})
   # when "all" is build.
   add_custom_command(
     OUTPUT ${_dst}
-    COMMAND ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/template < ${_src} > ${_dst}
-    DEPENDS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/template ${_src}
+    COMMAND ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/template < ${_src} > ${_dst}
+    DEPENDS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/template ${_src} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/versiondocker
   )
   add_custom_target(${_dir}_Dockerfile_target ALL DEPENDS ${_dst})
 
diff --git a/Docker/template.in b/Docker/template
similarity index 65%
rename from Docker/template.in
rename to Docker/template
index 642f24eea66d5059e8ae2b6bb36bf138ca76c203..723dbf696c9eaab0321a49e57fefdcbe5fa30fec 100755
--- a/Docker/template.in
+++ b/Docker/template
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
+#!/bin/bash 
 #
 # Template engine for LOFAR
 #
@@ -20,29 +19,17 @@
 # ----- LOFAR_BRANCH_NAME = UNKNOWN -----
 
 # Make sure we obtain info about the project source!
-SVN_INFO=`@Subversion_SVN_EXECUTABLE@ info @PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR@`
-
-# Extract repository root, e.g. https://svn.astron.nl/LOFAR
-REPO=`echo "$SVN_INFO" | perl -ne 'print "$1" if /Repository Root: +(.+)/;'`
-
-# Extract branch URL, e.g. https://svn.astron.nl/LOFAR/branches/LOFAR-Task1234
-URL=`echo "$SVN_INFO" | perl -ne 'print "$1" if /URL: +(.+)/;'`
+#PATH=$PATH:.
+VERSION_INFO=`versiondocker`
 
 # Extract branch name w.r.t. repository root, e.g. branches/LOFAR-Task1234
-BRANCH=`echo "$URL" | perl -ne 'print "$1" if m|^\Q'"$REPO"'\E/?(.+)|;'`
-
-# Define $LOFAR_BRANCH_NAME if all the above succeeded
-if [ -n "$REPO" -a -n "$BRANCH" ]; then
-  export LOFAR_BRANCH_NAME=${BRANCH}
-else
-  export LOFAR_BRANCH_NAME=UNKNOWN
-fi
+export LOFAR_BRANCH_NAME=`echo "$VERSION_INFO" | perl -ne 'print "$1" if /branch += +(.+)/;'`
 
 # ----- LOFAR_BRANCH_URL = https://svn.astron.nl/LOFAR/branches/LOFAR-Task1234 -----
 # ----- LOFAR_BRANCH_URL = https://svn.astron.nl/LOFAR/trunk -----
 # ----- LOFAR_BRANCH_URL = https://svn.astron.nl/LOFAR/tags/LOFAR-Release-2_15_1 -----
 
-export LOFAR_BRANCH_URL="$URL"
+export LOFAR_BRANCH_URL="https://svn.astron.nl/LOFAR/${LOFAR_BRANCH_NAME}"
 
 # ----- LOFAR_TAG = 1234 -----
 # ----- LOFAR_TAG = trunk -----
@@ -50,14 +37,14 @@ export LOFAR_BRANCH_URL="$URL"
 
 case "${LOFAR_BRANCH_NAME}" in
   trunk)      export LOFAR_TAG=trunk ;;
-  tags/*)     export LOFAR_TAG=${BRANCH##tags/LOFAR-Release-} ;;
-  branches/*) export LOFAR_TAG=${BRANCH##branches/LOFAR*Task} ;;
+  tags/*)     export LOFAR_TAG=${LOFAR_BRANCH_NAME##tags/LOFAR-Release-} ;;
+  branches/*) export LOFAR_TAG=${LOFAR_BRANCH_NAME##branches/LOFAR*Task} ;;
   *)          export LOFAR_TAG=latest ;;
 esac
 
 # ----- LOFAR_REVISION = 12345 -----
 
-export LOFAR_REVISION=`echo "$SVN_INFO" | perl -ne 'print "$1" if /Revision: +(.+)/;'`
+export LOFAR_REVISION=`echo "$VERSION_INFO" | perl -ne 'print "$1" if /overall revision += +([0-9]+)/;'`
 
 # ----- NOW = 2016-01-01 10:11:12 -----