kernel/linux.git/scripts/package/PKGBUILD, branch linux-7.0.y

kbuild: pacman-pkg: make "rc" releases adhere to pacman versioning scheme

2026-06-01T15:54:48+00:00

[ Upstream commit 202550713128da20d9381d6d2dc0f6b73839f434 ] 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 Signed-off-by: Viktor Jägersküpper Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor 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 Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

kbuild: pacman-pkg: hardcode module installation path

2025-03-22T15:56:13+00:00

'make pacman-pkg' for architectures with device tree support (i.e., arm, arm64, etc.) shows logs like follows: Installing dtbs... INSTALL /home/masahiro/linux/pacman/linux-upstream/pkg/linux-upstream/usr//lib/modules/6.14.0-rc6+/dtb/actions/s700-cubieboard7.dtb INSTALL /home/masahiro/linux/pacman/linux-upstream/pkg/linux-upstream/usr//lib/modules/6.14.0-rc6+/dtb/actions/s900-bubblegum-96.dtb INSTALL /home/masahiro/linux/pacman/linux-upstream/pkg/linux-upstream/usr//lib/modules/6.14.0-rc6+/dtb/airoha/en7581-evb.dtb ... The double slashes ('//') between 'usr' and 'lib' are somewhat ugly. Let's hardcode the module installation path because the package contents should remain unaffected even if ${MODLIB} is overridden. Please note that scripts/packages/{builddeb,kernel.spec} also hardcode the module installation path. With this change, the log will look better, as follows: Installing dtbs... INSTALL /home/masahiro/linux/pacman/linux-upstream/pkg/linux-upstream/usr/lib/modules/6.14.0-rc6+/dtb/actions/s700-cubieboard7.dtb INSTALL /home/masahiro/linux/pacman/linux-upstream/pkg/linux-upstream/usr/lib/modules/6.14.0-rc6+/dtb/actions/s900-bubblegum-96.dtb INSTALL /home/masahiro/linux/pacman/linux-upstream/pkg/linux-upstream/usr/lib/modules/6.14.0-rc6+/dtb/airoha/en7581-evb.dtb ... Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: Thomas Weißschuh Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor

kheaders: use 'tar' instead of 'cpio' for copying files

2025-01-10T14:01:22+00:00

The 'cpio' command is used solely for copying header files to the temporary directory. However, there is no strong reason to use 'cpio' for this purpose. For example, scripts/package/install-extmod-build uses the 'tar' command to copy files. This commit replaces the use of 'cpio' with 'tar' because 'tar' is already used in this script to generate kheaders_data.tar.xz anyway. Performance-wide, there is no significant difference between 'cpio' and 'tar'. [Before] $ rm -fr kheaders; mkdir kheaders $ time sh -c ' for f in include arch/x86/include do find "$f" -name "*.h" done | cpio --quiet -pd kheaders ' real 0m0.148s user 0m0.021s sys 0m0.140s [After] $ rm -fr kheaders; mkdir kheaders $ time sh -c ' for f in include arch/x86/include do find "$f" -name "*.h" done | tar -c -f - -T - | tar -xf - -C kheaders ' real 0m0.098s user 0m0.024s sys 0m0.131s Revert commit 69ef0920bdd3 ("Docs: Add cpio requirement to changes.rst") because 'cpio' is not used anywhere else during the kernel build. Please note that the built-in initramfs is created by the in-tree tool, usr/gen_init_cpio, so it does not rely on the external 'cpio' command at all. Remove 'cpio' from the package build dependencies as well. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: pacman-pkg: provide versioned linux-api-headers package

2025-01-05T14:19:17+00:00

The Arch Linux glibc package contains a versioned dependency on "linux-api-headers". If the linux-api-headers package provided by pacman-pkg does not specify an explicit version this dependency is not satisfied. Fix the dependency by providing an explicit version. Fixes: c8578539deba ("kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package") Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: add debug package to pacman PKGBUILD

2024-09-07T08:24:08+00:00

Add a new debug package to the PKGBUILD for the pacman-pkg target. The debug package includes the non-stripped vmlinux file with debug symbols for kernel debugging and profiling. The file is installed at /usr/src/debug/${pkgbase}, with a symbolic link at /usr/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/vmlinux. The debug package is built by default. Signed-off-by: Jose Fernandez Reviewed-by: Peter Jung Acked-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: pacman-pkg: do not override objtree

2024-09-01T11:34:49+00:00

objtree is defined and exported by the top-level Makefile. I prefer not to override it. There is no need to pass the absolute path of objtree. PKGBUILD can detect it by itself. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: Thomas Weißschuh Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Reviewed-by: Christian Heusel

kbuild: pacman-pkg: move common commands to a separate function

2024-09-01T11:34:49+00:00

All build and package functions share the following commands: export MAKEFLAGS="${KBUILD_MAKEFLAGS}" cd "${objtree}" Factor out the common code. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: Thomas Weißschuh Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Reviewed-by: Christian Heusel

kbuild: control extra pacman packages with PACMAN_EXTRAPACKAGES

2024-09-01T11:34:49+00:00

Introduce the PACMAN_EXTRAPACKAGES variable in PKGBUILD to allow users to specify which additional packages are built by the pacman-pkg target. Previously, the api-headers package was always included, and the headers package was included only if CONFIG_MODULES=y. With this change, both headers and api-headers packages are included by default. Users can now control this behavior by setting PACMAN_EXTRAPACKAGES to a space-separated list of desired extra packages or leaving it empty to exclude all. For example, to build only the base package without extras: make pacman-pkg PACMAN_EXTRAPACKAGES="" Signed-off-by: Jose Fernandez Reviewed-by: Peter Jung Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor Reviewed-by: Christian Heusel Tested-by: Christian Heusel Acked-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package

2024-07-21T16:24:22+00:00

pacman is the package manager used by Arch Linux and its derivates. Creating native packages from the kernel tree has multiple advantages: * The package triggers the correct hooks for initramfs generation and bootloader configuration * Uninstallation is complete and also invokes the relevant hooks * New UAPI headers can be installed without any manual bookkeeping The PKGBUILD file is a modified version of the one used for the downstream Arch Linux "linux" package. Extra steps that should not be necessary for a development kernel have been removed and an UAPI header package has been added. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada