Set external release jobs to use Staging image construction

Signed-off-by: Arjun <agadiyar@nvidia.com>

Author: JunAr7112

.common-ci.yml

@@ -175,8 +175,7 @@ trigger-pipeline:
     # Define the source image for the release
     IMAGE_NAME: "${CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE}"
     VERSION: "${CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA}"
-    # OUT_VERSION is overridden for external releases
-    OUT_VERSION: "${CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA}"
+    OUT_VERSION: "${VERSION}"
     OUT_DIST: "${DIST}"
   artifacts:
     paths:
@@ -194,7 +193,7 @@ trigger-pipeline:
     # Since OUT_IMAGE_NAME and OUT_VERSION are set, this will push the CI image to the target
     - if [[ "${PRECOMPILED}" == "true" ]]; then ./scripts/precompiled.sh push; else make push-${DIST}-${DRIVER_VERSION}; fi
     - mkdir -p build-info
-    - echo "${CI_COMMIT_SHORT_SHA}-${DRIVER_VERSION}-${DIST} ${DRIVER_VERSION}-${OUT_DIST}" > build-info/${CI_PIPELINE_ID}-${DRIVER_VERSION}-${OUT_DIST}.txt
+    - echo "${VERSION}-${DRIVER_VERSION}-${OUT_DIST} ${DRIVER_VERSION}-${OUT_DIST}" > build-info/${CI_PIPELINE_ID}-${DRIVER_VERSION}-${OUT_DIST}.txt
 
 .release-ubuntu22.04:
   # Perform for each DRIVER_VERSION
@@ -307,9 +306,6 @@ trigger-pipeline:
     - .release
   rules:
     - if: $CI_COMMIT_TAG
-      variables:
-        #VERSION: "${CI_COMMIT_TAG}"
-        OUT_VERSION: ""
     - if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == $RELEASE_DEVEL_BRANCH
       variables:
         VERSION: "${RELEASE_DEVEL_TAG}"
@@ -320,9 +316,6 @@ trigger-pipeline:
     - .release-ubuntu24.04
   rules:
     - if: $CI_COMMIT_TAG
-      variables:
-        #VERSION: "${CI_COMMIT_TAG}"
-        OUT_VERSION: ""
     - if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == $RELEASE_DEVEL_BRANCH
       variables:
         VERSION: "${RELEASE_DEVEL_TAG}"
@@ -333,9 +326,6 @@ trigger-pipeline:
     - .release-ubuntu22.04
   rules:
     - if: $CI_COMMIT_TAG
-      variables:
-        #VERSION: "${CI_COMMIT_TAG}"
-        OUT_VERSION: ""
     - if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == $RELEASE_DEVEL_BRANCH
       variables:
         VERSION: "${RELEASE_DEVEL_TAG}"