Bug#741889: os-prober: The 90fallback script lists the least recent kernels first

[Wojciech Górski <wgorski1@gmail.com>]

Hi,

2014-03-17 2:14 GMT+01:00 Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>:
> Wojciech Górski <wgorski1@gmail.com> (2014-03-17):
>> I have no experience with other distros, but the debian based ones
>> have a numbering schema allowing alphabetical ordering, not
>> accidentally I guess ;) So, this should be safe. If someone plays with
>> the numbering - well, aren't they asking for trouble?
>
> How do you think 3.9 vs 3.10 compare?

Riiiiiiight, thought it was 3.09. OK, the patch doesn't fix anything then.

>
>> Also, grub's behaviour in general is to favor more recent kernels over
>> older ones, as any update makes the freshly installed one default, so
>> this is what I would expect.
>
> Well, grub does version sorting. See: /etc/grub.d/10_linux, particularly
> | while [ "x$list" != "x" ] ; do
> |   linux=`version_find_latest $list`
> |   ...
> | done
>
> and version_find_latest's definition in grub-mkconfig_lib which is
> sourced at the very beginning.

Indeed it does! And doesn't do it in 30_os-prober. So this is where
the bug really is IMO.

Should I reassign this bug?

Regards,

WG