Re: Latest kernel shown at last

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Thursday 28 February 2008 11:41, Robert Millan wrote:
> 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?

What feature of bash do you need to use?

Okuji