[bug#69343] [PATCH v2 00/12] Simplify bootloader data structures and procedures

[Lilah Tascheter]

hey!

this is really useful!! love having access to generation numbers alongside
boot params, and the terminology fixing's great too :)

noticed a few problems - took the liberty to fix them in this v2 patch series:
* (gnu system boot) was missing a few imports that it needs to work.
* (gnu system boot) requires the procedure system-linux-image-file-name, which
  is defined in (gnu system). I moved it over to (gnu system boot).
* generation->boot-alternative in (guix scripts system) had typos in variables
  resulting in them not being used.
* commit messages didn't have relevant gnu changelog info.
* one of those commit messages had a wholeass log that's Way too much extraneous
  information and just got in the way when trying to look at the actual patch

this v2 passes all relevant unit tests, but could still definately use some
verification that the modified paths function properly before I'd say this is
ready to be merged. notably, system reconfigure and ssh managed machine
reconfigure should be verified, but then it should be good?

thanks ya!!

- lilah

Felix Lechner (12):
  Fix bug where the extra menu entries for a bootloader were shown
    twice.
  Move <boot-parameters> record to a separate file.
  Also move boot-parameters->menu-entry.
  Rename seconds->string procedure to epoch->date-string.
  Move epoch->date-string to gnu/system/boot.scm and use it elsewhere.
  Offer a uniform decorated-boot-label and use it.
  Rename boot-parameters to boot-alternatives when appropriate.
  Rename two remote variables confusingly named 'generations'.
  Give a separate name to a commonly used expression.
  Simplify profile->boot-alternatives.
  Split generation->boot-parameters out of profile->boot-alternatives.
  Encapsulate <boot-parameters> to retain generation, system-path and
    epoch.

 gnu/machine/ssh.scm       |  74 ++++----
 gnu/system.scm            | 264 +---------------------------
 gnu/system/boot.scm       | 354 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 guix/scripts/system.scm   |  71 ++++----
 tests/boot-parameters.scm |   1 +
 5 files changed, 430 insertions(+), 334 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 gnu/system/boot.scm


base-commit: 9038a46751c5090246e64b63ff752064833c435b
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2.41.0