From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JUgEA-0001F2-Lk for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:43:02 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUgE9-0001Ee-2m for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:43:01 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JUgE7-0001EA-Ng for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:43:00 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JUgE7-0001E1-C6 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:42:59 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JUgE6-0002ns-Ub for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:42:59 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JUgE5-0007Fc-QO; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:42:58 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JUgCQ-0000TR-Rf; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:41:14 +0100 Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:41:14 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080228104114.GI350@thorin> References: <511f47f50802272300l143d3d4cw1c33acb4bd4710f6@mail.gmail.com> <20080228021018.ufh0qbr20wc8coww@webmail.spamcop.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080228021018.ufh0qbr20wc8coww@webmail.spamcop.net> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: shirish Subject: Re: Latest kernel shown at last X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:43:01 -0000 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? -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)