Re: Latest kernel shown at last

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 02:10:18AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> >This is on grub2 (1.96+20080203-1ubuntu1) dunno whether its a bug
> >which should be filed in grub2 here or something which got messed up
> >while packaging it for ubuntu. Any help/guidance would be nice.
> 
> Please note that 1 is less than 5.  The Debian revision is compared as  
> string, not as number.
> 
> Correct comparing of Linux versions is very hard.  At very least, all  
> sequences of digits should be compared numerically.  I don't think GNU  
> sort can do that.  And then there is an issue with comparing "-pre",  
> "-rc", "-test", "-mm" and other suffixes.  And the separators have  
> different meanings - think of comparing 2.6.24-10 and 2.6.24.2-1.
> 
> I was thinking of fixing it, but I'm not sure it can even be done in  
> shell script.  We may need to write a helper in C just for that, or  
> resort to bashisms.

Okuji doesn't like bash scripts, but I really don't see what's the problem with
requiring bash just like you could require perl or python.  Okuji, would you
reconsider about this?

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Robert Millan

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