Package: extlinux
Version: 2:4.05+dfsg-6+deb7u1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
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Hello,
The current simple numeric sort fails now that the Linux kernel subversion is
going from single digit to two digits:
bjorn@nemi:/boot$ cd /boot && ls vmlinuz-* | grep -v .dpkg-tmp | sed -e
's|vmlinuz-||g' | sort -nr
3.9.0-rc5+
3.8-1-amd64
3.2.0-4-amd64
3.10.0-rc1+
3.10.0-rc1
This is a bit annoying, having the newest kernels near the bottom of the list.
Also
note that the + (which is produced when building a mainline kernel with
additional
patches) makes the sort order even less logical.
Please use the
-V, --version-sort
natural sort of (version) numbers within text
option available in the wheezy coreutils version of sort instead. This option
makes sort produce the version list in the correct order:
bjorn@nemi:/boot$ cd /boot && ls vmlinuz-* | grep -v .dpkg-tmp | sed -e
's|vmlinuz-||g' | sort -Vr
3.10.0-rc1+
3.10.0-rc1
3.9.0-rc5+
3.8-1-amd64
3.2.0-4-amd64
bjorn@nemi:~$ dpkg -S `which sort`
coreutils: /usr/bin/sort
bjorn@nemi:~$ apt-cache policy coreutils
coreutils:
Installed: 8.13-3.5
Candidate: 8.13-3.5
Version table:
8.20-3 0
600 http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
*** 8.13-3.5 0
700 http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Simple patch attached.
Bjørn
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.10.0-rc1+ (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages extlinux depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.49
ii libc6 2.13-38
Versions of packages extlinux recommends:
ii os-prober 1.58
ii syslinux-common 2:4.05+dfsg-6+deb7u1
ii syslinux-themes-debian 11-1.1
extlinux suggests no packages.
- -- debconf information:
* extlinux/install: false
- -- debsums errors found:
debsums: changed file /usr/sbin/extlinux-update (from extlinux package)
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--- /usr/sbin/extlinux-update.orig 2012-12-10 13:16:56.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/sbin/extlinux-update 2013-05-12 18:36:21.559588617 +0200
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ _CONFIG="\
"
# Find linux versions
-_VERSIONS="$(cd /boot && ls vmlinuz-* | grep -v .dpkg-tmp | sed -e 's|vmlinuz-||g' | sort -nr)"
+_VERSIONS="$(cd /boot && ls vmlinuz-* | grep -v .dpkg-tmp | sed -e 's|vmlinuz-||g' | sort -Vr)"
if [ "$(stat --printf %d /)" = "$(stat --printf %d /boot)" ]
then
