Feature changed by: Tomáš Chvátal (scarabeus_iv) Feature #321103, revision 2 Title: Sort kernels by timestamp in grub.cfg - openSUSE Distribution: New + openSUSE Distribution: Done Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Michal Marek (michal-m) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Currently, grub2 sorts the linux boot entries by version numbers. This has two drawbacks: 1) It does not work if a different version scheme is used than what the sorting algorithm expects, 2) It does not do the right thing when the user deliberately installs an older kernel for testing. With the old grub, the latest installed kernel has always been listed first. Such behavior serves both regular users, who keep updating the kernel packages to newer versions, as well as developers who build test kernels with non-standard release strings or boot older kernels for test purposes. A simple patch to enable timestamp sorting is in comment 10 of bug 827531. Relations: - Grub2 version 2.00 Sorts kernel version 3.10-rc7 as a higher release than kernel 3.10 (bugzilla/id: 827531) Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: More predictable sorting of boot entries. + Discussion: + #1: Tomáš Chvátal (scarabeus_iv) (2017-05-25 10:44:37) + Well I wrote the code for this bit ago. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/321103