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kbuild: pacman-pkg: make "rc" releases adhere to pacman versioning scheme
authorViktor Jägersküpper <viktor_jaegerskuepper@freenet.de>
Fri, 15 May 2026 21:58:45 +0000 (23:58 +0200)
committerNicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Tue, 19 May 2026 10:29:19 +0000 (12:29 +0200)
commit202550713128da20d9381d6d2dc0f6b73839f434
tree9ae71932d935499daee3060dc358f49b3ac24976
parent49f8fcde68898f5033082e8155cd344dd54ef232
kbuild: pacman-pkg: make "rc" releases adhere to pacman versioning scheme

The package versioning scheme does not enable smooth upgrades from "rc"
releases to the corresponding stable releases (e.g. 7.0.0-rc7 -> 7.0.0)
because pacman considers that a downgrade due to the underscore in
pkgver (e.g. 7.0.0_rc7), see e.g. vercmp(8) for an explanation of the
package version comparison used by pacman. Package versions which are
derived from said releases (e.g. built from git revisions) are
similarly affected. Fix this by modifying pkgver in order to remove the
hyphen from kernel versions containing "-rcN", where N is a
non-negative integer.

Acked-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Viktor Jägersküpper <viktor_jaegerskuepper@freenet.de>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515215913.92481-1-viktor_jaegerskuepper@freenet.de
Fixes: c8578539deba ("kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
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