vars: add restartUnits option

For secrets not part of the nix store there is no other way in NixOS to
restart a service after the secret is updated. One example is changing
password in userborn, which doesn't run as a activation script but as a
systemd service.
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Jörg Thalheim
2025-05-28 16:17:51 +02:00
parent 2efb4994a6
commit 7314f6b2ff
5 changed files with 20 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -298,6 +298,16 @@ in
description = "The unix file mode of the file. Must be a 4-digit octal number.";
default = "0400";
};
restartUnits = lib.mkOption {
description = ''
A list of systemd units that should be restarted after the file is deployed.
This is useful for services that need to reload their configuration after the file is updated.
WARNING: currently only sops-nix implements this option.
'';
type = listOf str;
default = [ ];
};
value =
lib.mkOption {
description = ''