Re: [PATCH v2] kbuild: pacman-pkg: make "rc" releases adhere to pacman versioning scheme

[Nicolas Schier]

On Fri, 15 May 2026 23:58:45 +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 "-rcN", where N is a
> non-negative integer.
> 
> [...]

Applied to kbuild/linux.git (kbuild-fixes-unstable), thanks!

[1/1] kbuild: pacman-pkg: make "rc" releases adhere to pacman versioning scheme
      https://git.kernel.org/kbuild/c/f2be8dd2

Please look out for regression or issue reports or other follow up
comments, as they may result in the patch/series getting dropped,
reverted or modified (e.g. trailers).  Patches applied to the
kbuild-fixes-unstable branch are accepted pending wider testing in
linux-next and any post-commit review; they will generally be moved
to the kbuild-fixes branch in a week if no issues are found.

Best regards,
-- 
Nicolas