[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 17460 - viric - in nixos/trunk/modules: . config installer installer/generations-dir installer/grub system/activation

[Nicolas Pierron]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:00, Nicolas Pierron
<nicolas.b.pierron at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:32, Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl> wrote:
>>> Making modular my previous changes for armv5tel. I updated the way to use
>>> grub. Its options are no more inside 'boot', but inside 'boot.loader.grub'.
>>
>> Renaming the Grub-related options to boot.loader.grub is not necessarily a bad
>> idea, but it does break just about every NixOS configuration file :-)  It also
>> requires the manual and examples to be updated (in particular because of
>> boot.grubDevice).
>>
>> It would be nice if we had some mechanism to declare option renamings, e.g. that
>> every value for "boot.grubDevice" in a configuration file is renamed to
>> "boot.loader.grub.device".  (Nicolas?)
>
> We can have one "rename.nix" module where we can set things like:
>
> rename obsolete "boot.grubDevice" to "boot.loader.grub.device"
> rename alias "boot.grubDevice" to "boot.loader.grub.device"
>
> which will just be a sugar over the module syntax.

Done.

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