[[ $EUID == 0 ]] || exec sudo -E "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" "$@"
-set -x
+# default
+kernel_ver='6\.6'
+case $1 in
+ stable)
+ # note: update kernel_ver when we are ready to jump to a new stable kernel.
+ # Stable kernels are listed here: https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
+ kernel_ver='6\.6'
+ ;;
+ unstable)
+ kernel_ver='[1-9]'
+ ;;
+esac
+
prereqs=()
for p in wget curl; do
tmpdir=$($ROOTCMD mktemp -d) || exit
+# shellcheck disable=SC2154 # defined by fai
outertmp=$target/$tmpdir
trap 'cd; rm -rf "$outertmp"' EXIT
cd $outertmp
-# update stable_ver when we are ready to jump to a new stable kernel.
-# Stable kernels are listed here: https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
-stable_ver='6\.6'
-# Actually, I dont want stable right now. comment this out to get stable
-# version.
-stable_ver='[1-9]'
-va=$(curl -s https://kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline/ | \
- sed -rn 's,.*alt="\[DIR\]".*href="([^/]+).*,\1,p' | \
- grep -v -- -rc | sed 's/^v//' | grep "^$stable_ver" | sort -V | tail -n1)
+# We get 10 versions cuz maybe the latest directory (or few) get created but not populated.
+tmps=$(curl -s https://kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline/ | \
+ sed -rn 's,.*alt="\[DIR\]".*href="([^/]+).*,\1,p' | \
+ grep -v -- -rc | sed 's/^v//' | grep "^$kernel_ver" | sort -Vr | head -n10)
+mapfile -t latest_versions <<<"$tmps"
-# note the wiki page about these says to install linux-headers.*generic.*amd64, but
-# as of 2024, they have a requirement of a very new glibc, and people report
-# that installing it is not needed.
-tmpstr=$(curl -s https://kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline/v$va/amd64/CHECKSUMS | awk '$2 ~ /^linux-/ { print $2 }' | sort -u | grep -iv 'linux-headers.*generic.*amd64' )
-mapfile -t pkgs <<<"$tmpstr"
+for va in "${latest_versions[@]}"; do
+ sleep .2 # be nice
+ # note the wiki page about these says to install linux-headers.*generic.*amd64, but
+ # as of 2024, they have a requirement of a very new glibc, and people report
+ # that installing it is not needed.
+ tmpstr=$(curl -s https://kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline/v$va/amd64/CHECKSUMS | awk '$2 ~ /^linux-/ { print $2 }' | sort -u | sed '/linux-headers.*generic.*amd64/d' )
+ if [[ $tmpstr ]]; then
+ mapfile -t pkgs <<<"$tmpstr"
+ break
+ fi
+done
if (( ${#pkgs[@]} != 3 )); then
echo "$0: error. expected to find 3 kernel packages, got: ${pkgs[*]}" >&2