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From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#27231: regression?: grub-configuration for grub-efi does not
	return a bootloader-configuration
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2017 22:49:55 +0300
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To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
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pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) (2017-06-04 16:25 +0200) wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 04:38:11PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote:
>> This is a limitation of 'grub-configuration' macro: that backtrace
>> happened because you have 'grub' field *not* in the first place of your
>> 'grub-configuration'.
>>
>> [=E2=80=A6]
>>
>> Note that this will work if you put (grub grub-efi) in the first place:
>>=20
>>   (grub-configuration (grub grub-efi)
>>                       (device "/dev/sda"))
>>
>
> Ah=E2=80=A6 Thank you for clarifying.
>
>   (bootloader (grub-configuration (grub grub-efi)
>                                   (device "/dev/sda")))
>
> I just tried and this fails too with the same error. I=E2=80=99m not sure=
 why
> it does not match the syntax rule for grub-configuration.

Hm, strange, it doesn't give me that error when 'grub' is in the first
place.  Anyway, I would use 'bootloader-configuration' instead as you do
it now.

> This macro seems complicated and unintuitive. I don=E2=80=99t like how a
> syntax rule feigns being a record definition but isn=E2=80=99t and theref=
ore
> breaks things=E2=80=A6 Why not just inherit bootloader-configuration?

I don't know, it's better to ask Mathieu (Cc-ed) who made these changes
in the bootloader code.

--=20
Alex