my $template = {
    global => {
        variables => {
            version => "$s_version",
            variant => "10",
            dir => "$root",
        }
    }
};

if ( $s_version eq "s8" ) {
    $template{global}{base} = "$version/$group";
}
else {
    $template{global}{exe}  => "$exe_state",
    $template{global}{base} => "$s_version/$exe/$group" ,
}