Re: Wrong sorting of suffixed kernels when adding EXTRAVERSION

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 29.10.2011 05:08, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> Running this on a Gentoo system with kernel images generated by Gentoo's
> genkernel.
The patch was way too bashist and this particular file has to work in 
POSIX environment so I've rewritten it using your idea and committed.
> My kernel has CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-kvm1" and I end up with the following files
> in /boot (just the relevant section):
>
> kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.37.1-kvm1
> kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.38.2-kvm1
> kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.38.5-kvm1
> kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.39.1-kvm1
> kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.39.3-kvm1
> kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.39-kvm1
>
> grub-mkconfig generates the config in this order, with 2.6.39 being on top,
> while it should be lower.
>
> grep Loading.*2.6. grub.conf | uniq -c
>        2         echo    'Loading Linux x86_64-2.6.39-kvm1 ...'
>        2         echo    'Loading Linux x86_64-2.6.39.3-kvm1 ...'
>        2         echo    'Loading Linux x86_64-2.6.39.1-kvm1 ...'
>        2         echo    'Loading Linux x86_64-2.6.38.5-kvm1 ...'
>        2         echo    'Loading Linux x86_64-2.6.38.2-kvm1 ...'
>        2         echo    'Loading Linux x86_64-2.6.37.1-kvm1 ...'
>
> I have been using the attached patch for a while now and it solves the
> problem just fine. Simply using "sort -V" does the right thing. If the
> "-V" option is not available - revert to the old behavior.
>
> This hasn't happened with the 3.x kernels as they don't have EXTRAVERSION but
> you never know when that would start.
>
>
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Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko