Your message dated Tue, 18 Oct 2016 13:43:37 +0000
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and subject line update-extlinux is no longer
has caused the Debian Bug report #819567,
regarding extlinux: please sort kernels by version
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819567: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819567
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Package: extlinux
Version: 2:4.05+dfsg-6+deb7u1
Severity: normal
When extlinux-update is writing out the linux.cfg file, it uses the
following shell code:
# Find linux versions
_VERSIONS="$(cd /boot && ls vmlinuz-* | grep -v .dpkg-tmp | sed -e
's|vmlinuz-||g' | sort -nr)"
Unfortunately, this results in (for instance) vmlinuz-3.2 being sorted
before vmlinuz-3.16, with the unexpected result that an unattended
reboot will still boot to the old kernel.
It should really use "sort -Vr" instead. (I made a local diversion of
this file with this fix and it works perfectly.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.9
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages extlinux depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.49
ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u10
Versions of packages extlinux recommends:
pn os-prober <none>
ii syslinux-common 2:4.05+dfsg-6+deb7u1
pn syslinux-themes-debian <none>
extlinux suggests no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---
> It should really use "sort -Vr" instead. (I made a local diversion of
> this file with this fix and it works perfectly.)
extlinux-update has been dropped from debian as the maintainer left.
The whole syslinux package needs a new maintainer.
https://packages.qa.debian.org/s/syslinux.html
Riku
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