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nixpkgs/modules/installer/generations-dir/generations-dir.nix
Ludovic Courtès 0513b31f73 Improve the documentation of `generationsDir'.
svn path=/nixos/trunk/; revision=25718
2011-01-29 23:07:02 +00:00

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{pkgs, config, ...}:
###### interface
let
inherit (pkgs.lib) mkOption mkIf;
options = {
boot = {
loader = {
generationsDir = {
enable = mkOption {
default = false;
description = ''
Whether to create symlinks to the system generations under
<literal>/boot</literal>. When enabled,
<literal>/boot/default/kernel</literal>,
<literal>/boot/default/initrd</literal>, etc., are updated to
point to the current generation's kernel image, initial RAM
disk, and other bootstrap files.
This optional is not necessary with bootloads such as GNU GRUB
for which the menu is updated to point to the latest bootstrap
files. However, it is needed for U-Boot on platforms where the
boot command line is stored in flash memory rather than in a
menu file.
'';
};
copyKernels = mkOption {
default = false;
description = "
Whether copy the necessary boot files into /boot, so
/nix/store is not needed by the boot loadear.
";
};
};
};
};
};
in
###### implementation
let
generationsDirBuilder = pkgs.substituteAll {
src = ./generations-dir-builder.sh;
isExecutable = true;
inherit (pkgs) bash;
path = [pkgs.coreutils pkgs.gnused pkgs.gnugrep];
inherit (config.boot.loader.generationsDir) copyKernels;
};
# Temporary check, for nixos to cope both with nixpkgs stdenv-updates and trunk
platform = pkgs.stdenv.platform;
in
{
require = [
options
# config.system.build
# ../system/system-options.nix
];
system = mkIf config.boot.loader.generationsDir.enable {
build = {
menuBuilder = generationsDirBuilder;
};
boot.loader.id = "generationsDir";
boot.loader.kernelFile = platform.kernelTarget;
};
}