diff --git a/SPECS/java-21-openjdk.spec b/SPECS/java-21-openjdk.spec
index 6da41f8..ce6dbc4 100644
--- a/SPECS/java-21-openjdk.spec
+++ b/SPECS/java-21-openjdk.spec
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@
 %global rpmrelease      2
 # Settings used by the portable build
 %global portablerelease 1
-%global portablesuffix el9
+%global portablesuffix el8
 %global portablebuilddir /builddir/build/BUILD
 
 # Priority must be 8 digits in total; up to openjdk 1.8, we were using 18..... so when we moved to 11, we had to add another digit