grub2-mkconfig with 3.2.10 kernels?

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 19 Mar 2012 at 17:39, Piscium wrote:

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Subject:        	Re: grub2-mkconfig with 3.2.10 kernels?
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> On 18 March 2012 15:00, Michael D. Setzer II <mikes at kuentos.guam.net>
> wrote: > Just did an update and it included a new kernel, but then on
> > reboot after running grub2-mkconfig noticed that the newest one >
> was not first. Seems to be sorting the 9 before the 10? > > Is this a
> bug?
> 
> I have been using Grub2 built from upstream sources since before I
> started using Fedora (F12). This is an issue I am very familiar with,
> and the way I address it is by setting GRUB_DEFAULT when needed.
> 
> This issue is with respect to the way the Fedora kernel versions are
> sorted (but it works well with Ubuntu and Debian versioning). The bug
> might be in os-prober (rather than grub2). -- users mailing list
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I have had some messages on the grub list, and they confirmed 
the bug, and a fix seems to be to modify the 
/usr/lib/grub/grub_mkconfig_lib by changing one line from sort -n 
to sort -V.  Note: That is an unofficial patch in this case does seem 
to fix the problem. 


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