Arch Kernel Order

Patch GRUB2 on Arch to sort the kernels so that the top entry is the latest standard kernel (when the LTS kernel is also installed)

grub2 /etc/grub.d/10_linux ordering patch (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42597)

--- 10_linux.orig	2014-05-14 01:22:27.000000000 -0500
+++ 10_linux	2014-06-21 13:20:37.816869963 -0500
@@ -177,7 +177,16 @@
 
 is_top_level=true
 while [ "x$list" != "x" ] ; do
-  linux=`version_find_latest $list`
+  # version_find_latest returns 'linux-lts' before 'linux' on the average
+  # Arch install of these two kernels, we'll first check if there are any
+  # numerics in the kernels, and if not just pop them off the stack in
+  # natural alpha sorting order.
+  if [ $(echo $list | grep -q '[0-9]') ]; then
+    linux=`version_find_latest $list`
+  else
+    artmp=($list)
+    linux=${artmp[0]}
+  fi
   gettext_printf "Found linux image: %s\n" "$linux" >&2
   basename=`basename $linux`
   dirname=`dirname $linux`

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