On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 01:41 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Wojciech Górski <wgorski1@gmail.com> (2014-03-17): > > Package: os-prober > > Version: 1.63 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: patch > > > > Hi, > > > > when detecting kernels on a linux system without grub/lilo, the 90fallback > > script is used, which looks for kernel/image files in a few well-known > > locations using 'ls'. This makes the output least-recent-first ordered, causing > > grub to use the oldest kernel as default, making it necessary to use a submenu > > to boot the most recent one. > > > > Attaching a patch reversing the ordering. > > Thanks. > > If we're going to fix that, don't we want to be sorting based on time > (-t), instead sorting alphabetically (the default). Ideally we could > do version-based sorting, but then people might come up with funny > versioning schemes, so time-based looks better to me at first glance. > > Thoughts? [...] If you can assume linux-base is installed (it is required by all official kernel packages) then use the linux-version command. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett
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