From: Prarit Bhargava on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/1735#note_9015445...
"Perhaps we could make this a feature based on a flag in Makefile.variables? That way I could turn it off for Fedora."
We could but does the $(PKGRELEASE) string really add any value for the tarballs? IOW I'm wondering if something as simple as
https://gitlab.com/prarit/kernel- ark/-/commit/eacde0c5acfa4665f4ef749b2b96ee614d6633f1
would work?