[bug #42597] Alpha sorting for kernel names without versions (rolling release)

[Sir Grublon]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #42597 (project grub):

wrong sort in version_test_numeric().

I installed different kernels under arch linux. A grub-mkconfig ordered the
menu entries oddly.
As arch is not using versioning numbers in the kernel image's filenames, it
should sort alphabetically.

Example
/boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts
/boot/vmlinuz-hardened
/boot/vmlinuz-zen

the lts entry somehow always was sorted out as "newest". But it should be
following order hardened, lts, zen.

I found a typo in grub-mkconfig_lib.in line 233:
if (echo "$version_test_numeric_a" ; echo "$version_test_numeric_b") |
version_sort | head -n 1 | grep -qx "$version_test_numeric_b" ; then

It should be
....... | grep -qx "$version_test_numeric_a" ; then

After that fix the ordering is correct in my case.



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