[Bug 476540] [NEW] script 10_linux doesn't sort kernel versions correctly

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Freitag, den 06.11.2009, 14:42 +0000 schrieb Pierre Frenkiel:
> Public bug reported:
> 
> Binary package hint: grub-pc
> 
> Description:	Ubuntu 8.10
> Release:	8.10
> 
> grub-pc:
>   Installed: 1.96+20080512-1ubuntu2
>   Candidate: 1.96+20080512-1ubuntu2
>   Version table:
>  *** 1.96+20080512-1ubuntu2 0
>         500 http://ftp.crihan.fr intrepid/universe Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> Ihave presently to versions of linux-image:
>    /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-15-generic
>    /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic
> 
> I expect the -15 version being found as more recent than -9
> 
> what happens:
>    /etc/grub.d/10_linux gives:
> 
> 	Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-9-generic
>    . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
>    Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-15-generic
>    . . . . . . . . . . . . . 
> and then, of course, the 1st menuentry in grub.cfg is for the oldest kernel
> Anyway, the sort program doesn''t work correctly with stdin.
>  

Can you please try with the karmic version, i.e. 9.10?
We use now the dpkg sorting algorithm and this should work for the usual
cases much better now.

I really didn't expect to see now that 9.10 is released a bug report for
8.10.

-- 
Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer

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