build: avoid errors during release candidate kernel packaging
authorMarkus Stockhausen <markus.stockhausen@gmx.de>
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:34:54 +0000 (07:34 +0100)
committerRobert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:06:47 +0000 (11:06 +0100)
The build system allows to use Linux release candidate kernels (-rcX).
For this a target/linux/generic/kernel-6.XY as follows is needed:

LINUX_VERSION-6.XY = -rc1
LINUX_KERNEL_HASH-6.XY-rc1 = 18ba6ebd72f46b881e0d73e390b2888b7b43...

Sadly the builds fail with a packaging error.

fakeroot /home/openwrt/openwrt/openwrt/staging_dir/host/bin/apk
mkpkg --info "name:kernel" --info "version:6.15-rc1~c4bf...1f6-r1"
ERROR: info field 'version' has invalid value: package version is invalid

The apk metadata specification reads:

"... Currently the APK version specification is as follows:
number{.number}...{letter}{_suffix{number}}...{~hash}{-r#} ...
Optionally one or more _suffix{number} components can follow.
The list of valid suffixes (and their sorting order) is: alpha,
beta, pre, rc, <no suffix>, cvs, svn, git, hg, p."

Given that the kernel uses "-rcX" naming scheme and apk requires
"_rcX" instead, simply translate the dash to an underscore for
these builds.

Signed-off-by: Markus Stockhausen <markus.stockhausen@gmx.de>
Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/21214
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
include/kernel.mk
package/Makefile
package/kernel/linux/Makefile

index 6ef766388a960c2c006add3f7a8e273b27b64382..7d09e90656e4caabcaef880a9bfbd91bf5adb496 100644 (file)
@@ -213,8 +213,8 @@ define KernelPackage
     SECTION:=kernel
     CATEGORY:=Kernel modules
     DESCRIPTION:=$(DESCRIPTION)
-    EXTRA_DEPENDS:=kernel (=$(LINUX_VERSION)~$(LINUX_VERMAGIC)-r$(LINUX_RELEASE))
-    VERSION:=$(LINUX_VERSION)$(if $(PKG_VERSION),.$(PKG_VERSION))-r$(if $(PKG_RELEASE),$(PKG_RELEASE),$(LINUX_RELEASE))
+    EXTRA_DEPENDS:=kernel (=$(subst -rc,_rc,$(LINUX_VERSION))~$(LINUX_VERMAGIC)-r$(LINUX_RELEASE))
+    VERSION:=$(subst -rc,_rc,$(LINUX_VERSION))$(if $(PKG_VERSION),.$(PKG_VERSION))-r$(if $(PKG_RELEASE),$(PKG_RELEASE),$(LINUX_RELEASE))
     PKGFLAGS:=$(PKGFLAGS)
     $(call KernelPackage/$(1))
     $(call KernelPackage/$(1)/$(BOARD))
index 097ee17151ba8455baacdbad3bf4aaf6af63f5b6..0fd3a5e8c80249530ae8f04b61bdc1305cb89ef5 100644 (file)
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ ifneq ($(CONFIG_USE_APK),)
                $$(cat $(TMP_DIR)/apk_install_list) \
                        "base-files=$(shell cat $(TMP_DIR)/base-files.version)" \
                        "libc=$(shell cat $(TMP_DIR)/libc.version)" \
-                       "kernel=$(shell cat $(TMP_DIR)/kernel.version)"
+                       "kernel=$(subst -rc,_rc,$(shell cat $(TMP_DIR)/kernel.version))"
 
        rm -rf $(TARGET_DIR)/run
 else
index 5ceb78d12818561ba7021272c411c706f9a17ec2..2f4124b7040c702ac921477e01a40a1de7e9cf6f 100644 (file)
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ define Package/kernel
   CATEGORY:=Kernel
   DEFAULT:=y
   TITLE:=Virtual kernel package
-  VERSION:=$(LINUX_VERSION)~$(LINUX_VERMAGIC)-r$(LINUX_RELEASE)
+  VERSION:=$(subst -rc,_rc,$(LINUX_VERSION))~$(LINUX_VERMAGIC)-r$(LINUX_RELEASE)
   URL:=http://www.kernel.org/
   PKG_FLAGS:=nonshared
 endef