From: "Thomas Weißschuh" <linux@weissschuh.net>
To: "Viktor Jägersküpper" <viktor_jaegerskuepper@freenet.de>
Cc: Christian Heusel <christian@heusel.eu>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: pacman-pkg: make "rc" releases adhere to pacman versioning scheme
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 13:31:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac256794-25c2-46bf-8375-e65b2f0b06ff@t-8ch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260513231745.51780-1-viktor_jaegerskuepper@freenet.de>
On 2026-05-14 01:17:29+0200, Viktor Jägersküpper wrote:
> 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 "-rc".
>
> Signed-off-by: Viktor Jägersküpper <viktor_jaegerskuepper@freenet.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Thanks!
> ---
> scripts/package/PKGBUILD | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
(...)
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-13 23:17 [PATCH] kbuild: pacman-pkg: make "rc" releases adhere to pacman versioning scheme Viktor Jägersküpper
2026-05-14 11:31 ` Thomas Weißschuh [this message]
2026-05-14 13:19 ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-05-14 21:46 ` Viktor Jägersküpper
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