grub2-mkconfig not sorting correctly?

[Michael D. Setzer II]

Saw this some time ago, and then there was a patch, and it 
worked, and then this was updated. But have not seen it again 
with 3.6.10 kernel coming later instead of first.

Did some searching, and found a modification to 
grub-mkconfig_lib that seems to fix the problem.
This is with Fedora 16, but saw one note of this being fixed in 
Fedora 17, but don't know if it is the same with all version.

Then change is the following function.
version_find_latest ()
{
  #patched (whole work is done by sort!):
  echo $@ | tr ' ' '\n' | sort -Vr | head -1 | cat
#bad code! sorts wrong! 
#local a=""
 # for i in $@ ; do
  #  if version_test_gt "$i" "$a" ; then
   #   a="$i"
    #fi
  #done
  #echo "$a"
}

After applying the change, 
the grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Now correctly sorts the kernels with the newest first.

May only be an issue with Fedora 16, but might want to check if 
you run grub2-mkconfig. I believe the yum update did correctly 
create the grub.cfg, but running the grub2-mkconfig didn't.


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