templates: Introduce GRUB_TOP_LEVEL_* vars

A user may wish to use an image that is not sorted as the "latest"
version as the top-level entry. For example, in Arch Linux, if a user
has the LTS and regular kernels installed, "/boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts"
gets sorted as the "latest" compared to "/boot/vmlinuz-linux", meaning
the LTS kernel becomes the top-level entry. However, a user may wish to
use the regular kernel as the top-level default with the LTS only
existing as a backup.

This need can be seen in Arch Linux's AUR with two user-submitted
packages[0][1] providing an update hook which patches /etc/grub.d/10_linux
to move the desired kernel to the top-level. This patch serves to solve
this in a more generic way.

Introduce the GRUB_TOP_LEVEL, GRUB_TOP_LEVEL_XEN and GRUB_TOP_LEVEL_OS_PROBER
variables to allow users to specify the top-level entry.

Create grub_move_to_front() as a helper function which moves entries to
the front of a list. This function does the heavy lifting of moving
the menu entry to the front in each script.

In 10_netbsd, since there isn't an explicit list variable, extract the
items that are being iterated through into a list so that we can
optionally apply grub_move_to_front() to the list before the loop.

[0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/grub-linux-default-hook
[1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/grub-linux-rt-default-hook

Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
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Denton Liu authored and Daniel Kiper committed 2022-11-14 16:54:12 +01:00
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@@ -164,6 +164,10 @@ submenu_indentation=""
reverse_sorted_list=$(echo ${list} | tr ' ' '\n' | sed -e 's/\.old$/ 1/; / 1$/! s/$/ 2/' | version_sort -r | sed -e 's/ 1$/.old/; s/ 2$//')
if [ "x$GRUB_TOP_LEVEL" != x ]; then
reverse_sorted_list=$(grub_move_to_front "$GRUB_TOP_LEVEL" ${reverse_sorted_list})
fi
is_top_level=true
for kfreebsd in ${reverse_sorted_list}; do