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

2021-09-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 21:17:17 +0100 Wojciech Górski wrote: 2014-03-17 2:14 GMT+01:00 Cyril Brulebois : > Wojciech Górski (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 gu

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

2014-03-17 Thread Wojciech Górski
Hi, 2014-03-17 2:14 GMT+01:00 Cyril Brulebois : > Wojciech Górski (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 num

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

2014-03-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Wojciech Górski (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

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

2014-03-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 01:41 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Wojciech Górski (2014-03-17): > > Package: os-prober > > Version: 1.63 > > Severity: normal > > Tags: patch > > > > Hi, > > > > when detecting kernels on a linux system without grub/lilo, the 90fallback > > script is used, which looks f

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

2014-03-16 Thread Wojciech Górski
Hi, well, there is no perfect solution. Someone may want to install an older kernel for testing or something, but keep the new one as a default, for other users of the system for example. In this case time based ordering would not be accurate. I have no experience with other distros, but the debi

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

2014-03-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Wojciech Górski (2014-03-17): > Package: os-prober > Version: 1.63 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > Hi, > > when detecting kernels on a linux system without grub/lilo, the 90fallback > script is used, which looks for kernel/image files in a few well-known > locations using 'ls'. This makes t

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

2014-03-16 Thread Wojciech Górski
Package: os-prober Version: 1.63 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi, when detecting kernels on a linux system without grub/lilo, the 90fallback script is used, which looks for kernel/image files in a few well-known locations using 'ls'. This makes the output least-recent-first ordered, causing grub