Re: [PATCH] kbuild: pacman-pkg: make "rc" releases adhere to pacman versioning scheme

["Viktor Jägersküpper" <viktor_jaegerskuepper@freenet.de>]

On 5/14/26 23:46, Viktor Jägersküpper wrote:
> On 5/14/26 15:19, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 May 2026 01:17:29 +0200, Viktor Jägersküpper <viktor_jaegerskuepper@freenet.de> wrote:
>>> diff --git a/scripts/package/PKGBUILD b/scripts/package/PKGBUILD
>>> index 452374d63c24..fe629074b4e8 100644
>>> --- a/scripts/package/PKGBUILD
>>> +++ b/scripts/package/PKGBUILD
>>> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ for pkg in $_extrapackages; do
>>>  	pkgname+=("${pkgbase}-${pkg}")
>>>  done
>>>  
>>> -pkgver="${KERNELRELEASE//-/_}"
>>> +pkgver="$(echo "${KERNELRELEASE}" | sed 's/-rc/rc/;s/-/_/g')"
>>
>> Sashiko notes [1] (with a contrived example) that this could result in
>> custom localversions being matched and adjusted. While I don't think it
>> is that big of a deal given how specific the example is, it takes little
>> effort to make the match more restrictive to make such a situation less
>> likely:
>>
>>   pkgver="$(echo "${KERNELRELEASE}" | sed 's/-\(rc[0-9]\+\)/\1/;s/-/_/g')"
>>
>> [1]: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20030
> 
> I agree this is much better. Actually I should have looked at the
> script "mkdebian" for Debian packages which has this line:
> 
> upstream_version=$("${srctree}/scripts/setlocalversion" --no-local "${srctree}" | sed 's/-\(rc[1-9]\)/~\1/')
> 
> This is incorrect for the (hopefully rare) case that we have 10 or more
> "rc" releases, but that can be fixed in another patch.
I was confused, this code for Debian packages should be fine.

Viktor