{ config, options, lib, pkgs, utils, modules, baseModules, extraModules, modulesPath, ... }:
with lib;
let
cfg = config.documentation;
allOpts = options;
/* Modules for which to show options even when not imported. */
extraDocModules = [ ../virtualisation/qemu-vm.nix ];
canCacheDocs = m:
let
f = import m;
instance = f (mapAttrs (n: _: abort "evaluating ${n} for `meta` failed") (functionArgs f));
in
cfg.nixos.options.splitBuild
&& builtins.isPath m
&& isFunction f
&& instance ? options
&& instance.meta.buildDocsInSandbox or true;
docModules =
let
p = partition canCacheDocs (baseModules ++ extraDocModules);
in
{
lazy = p.right;
eager = p.wrong ++ optionals cfg.nixos.includeAllModules (extraModules ++ modules);
};
manual = import ../../doc/manual rec {
inherit pkgs config;
version = config.system.nixos.release;
revision = "release-${version}";
extraSources = cfg.nixos.extraModuleSources;
options =
let
scrubbedEval = evalModules {
modules = [ {
_module.check = false;
} ] ++ docModules.eager;
specialArgs = {
pkgs = scrubDerivations "pkgs" pkgs;
# allow access to arbitrary options for eager modules, eg for getting
# option types from lazy modules
options = allOpts;
inherit modulesPath utils;
};
};
scrubDerivations = namePrefix: pkgSet: mapAttrs
(name: value:
let wholeName = "${namePrefix}.${name}"; in
if isAttrs value then
scrubDerivations wholeName value
// (optionalAttrs (isDerivation value) { outPath = "\${${wholeName}}"; })
else value
)
pkgSet;
in scrubbedEval.options;
baseOptionsJSON =
let
filter =
builtins.filterSource
(n: t:
(t == "directory" -> baseNameOf n != "tests")
&& (t == "file" -> hasSuffix ".nix" n)
);
in
pkgs.runCommand "lazy-options.json" {
libPath = filter "${toString pkgs.path}/lib";
pkgsLibPath = filter "${toString pkgs.path}/pkgs/pkgs-lib";
nixosPath = filter "${toString pkgs.path}/nixos";
modules = map (p: ''"${removePrefix "${modulesPath}/" (toString p)}"'') docModules.lazy;
} ''
export NIX_STORE_DIR=$TMPDIR/store
export NIX_STATE_DIR=$TMPDIR/state
${pkgs.nix}/bin/nix-instantiate \
--show-trace \
--eval --json --strict \
--argstr libPath "$libPath" \
--argstr pkgsLibPath "$pkgsLibPath" \
--argstr nixosPath "$nixosPath" \
--arg modules "[ $modules ]" \
--argstr stateVersion "${options.system.stateVersion.default}" \
--argstr release "${config.system.nixos.release}" \
$nixosPath/lib/eval-cacheable-options.nix > $out \
|| {
echo -en "\e[1;31m"
echo 'Cacheable portion of option doc build failed.'
echo 'Usually this means that an option attribute that ends up in documentation (eg' \
'`default` or `description`) depends on the restricted module arguments' \
'`config` or `pkgs`.'
echo
echo 'Rebuild your configuration with `--show-trace` to find the offending' \
'location. Remove the references to restricted arguments (eg by escaping' \
'their antiquotations or adding a `defaultText`) or disable the sandboxed' \
'build for the failing module by setting `meta.buildDocsInSandbox = false`.'
echo -en "\e[0m"
exit 1
} >&2
'';
inherit (cfg.nixos.options) warningsAreErrors;
};
nixos-help = let
helpScript = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "nixos-help" ''
# Finds first executable browser in a colon-separated list.
# (see how xdg-open defines BROWSER)
browser="$(
IFS=: ; for b in $BROWSER; do
[ -n "$(type -P "$b" || true)" ] && echo "$b" && break
done
)"
if [ -z "$browser" ]; then
browser="$(type -P xdg-open || true)"
if [ -z "$browser" ]; then
browser="${pkgs.w3m-nographics}/bin/w3m"
fi
fi
exec "$browser" ${manual.manualHTMLIndex}
'';
desktopItem = pkgs.makeDesktopItem {
name = "nixos-manual";
desktopName = "NixOS Manual";
genericName = "View NixOS documentation in a web browser";
icon = "nix-snowflake";
exec = "nixos-help";
categories = "System";
};
in pkgs.symlinkJoin {
name = "nixos-help";
paths = [
helpScript
desktopItem
];
};
# list of man outputs currently active intended for use as default values
# for man-related options, thus "man" is included unconditionally.
activeManOutputs = [ "man" ] ++ lib.optionals cfg.dev.enable [ "devman" ];
in
{
imports = [
(mkRenamedOptionModule [ "programs" "info" "enable" ] [ "documentation" "info" "enable" ])
(mkRenamedOptionModule [ "programs" "man" "enable" ] [ "documentation" "man" "enable" ])
(mkRenamedOptionModule [ "services" "nixosManual" "enable" ] [ "documentation" "nixos" "enable" ])
];
options = {
documentation = {
enable = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = true;
description = ''
Whether to install documentation of packages from
into the generated system path.
See "Multiple-output packages" chapter in the nixpkgs manual for more info.
'';
# which is at ../../../doc/multiple-output.chapter.md
};
man.enable = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = true;
description = ''
Whether to install manual pages and the man command.
This also includes "man" outputs.
'';
};
man.generateCaches = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = false;
description = ''
Whether to generate the manual page index caches using
mandb(8). This allows searching for a page or
keyword using utilities like apropos(1).
'';
};
man.manualPages = mkOption {
type = types.path;
default = pkgs.buildEnv {
name = "man-paths";
paths = config.environment.systemPackages;
pathsToLink = [ "/share/man" ];
extraOutputsToInstall = activeManOutputs;
ignoreCollisions = true;
};
defaultText = literalDocBook "all man pages in ";
description = ''
The manual pages to generate caches for if
is enabled. Must be a path to a directory with man pages under
/share/man; see the source for an example.
Advanced users can make this a content-addressed derivation to save a few rebuilds.
'';
};
info.enable = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = true;
description = ''
Whether to install info pages and the info command.
This also includes "info" outputs.
'';
};
doc.enable = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = true;
description = ''
Whether to install documentation distributed in packages' /share/doc.
Usually plain text and/or HTML.
This also includes "doc" outputs.
'';
};
dev.enable = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = false;
description = ''
Whether to install documentation targeted at developers.
This includes man pages targeted at developers if is
set (this also includes "devman" outputs).This includes info pages targeted at developers if
is set (this also includes "devinfo" outputs).This includes other pages targeted at developers if
is set (this also includes "devdoc" outputs).
'';
};
nixos.enable = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = true;
description = ''
Whether to install NixOS's own documentation.
This includes man pages like
configuration.nix5 if is
set.This includes the HTML manual and the nixos-help command if
is set.
'';
};
nixos.options.splitBuild = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = true;
description = ''
Whether to split the option docs build into a cacheable and an uncacheable part.
Splitting the build can substantially decrease the amount of time needed to build
the manual, but some user modules may be incompatible with this splitting.
'';
};
nixos.options.warningsAreErrors = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = true;
description = ''
Treat warning emitted during the option documentation build (eg for missing option
descriptions) as errors.
'';
};
nixos.includeAllModules = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = false;
description = ''
Whether the generated NixOS's documentation should include documentation for all
the options from all the NixOS modules included in the current
configuration.nix. Disabling this will make the manual
generator to ignore options defined outside of baseModules.
'';
};
nixos.extraModuleSources = mkOption {
type = types.listOf (types.either types.path types.str);
default = [ ];
description = ''
Which extra NixOS module paths the generated NixOS's documentation should strip
from options.
'';
example = literalExpression ''
# e.g. with options from modules in ''${pkgs.customModules}/nix:
[ pkgs.customModules ]
'';
};
};
};
config = mkIf cfg.enable (mkMerge [
(mkIf cfg.man.enable {
environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.man-db ];
environment.pathsToLink = [ "/share/man" ];
environment.extraOutputsToInstall = activeManOutputs;
environment.etc."man_db.conf".text =
let
manualCache = pkgs.runCommandLocal "man-cache" { } ''
echo "MANDB_MAP ${cfg.man.manualPages}/share/man $out" > man.conf
${pkgs.man-db}/bin/mandb -C man.conf -psc >/dev/null 2>&1
'';
in
''
# Manual pages paths for NixOS
MANPATH_MAP /run/current-system/sw/bin /run/current-system/sw/share/man
MANPATH_MAP /run/wrappers/bin /run/current-system/sw/share/man
${optionalString cfg.man.generateCaches ''
# Generated manual pages cache for NixOS (immutable)
MANDB_MAP /run/current-system/sw/share/man ${manualCache}
''}
# Manual pages caches for NixOS
MANDB_MAP /run/current-system/sw/share/man /var/cache/man/nixos
'';
})
(mkIf cfg.info.enable {
environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.texinfoInteractive ];
environment.pathsToLink = [ "/share/info" ];
environment.extraOutputsToInstall = [ "info" ] ++ optional cfg.dev.enable "devinfo";
environment.extraSetup = ''
if [ -w $out/share/info ]; then
shopt -s nullglob
for i in $out/share/info/*.info $out/share/info/*.info.gz; do
${pkgs.buildPackages.texinfo}/bin/install-info $i $out/share/info/dir
done
fi
'';
})
(mkIf cfg.doc.enable {
environment.pathsToLink = [ "/share/doc" ];
environment.extraOutputsToInstall = [ "doc" ] ++ optional cfg.dev.enable "devdoc";
})
(mkIf cfg.nixos.enable {
system.build.manual = manual;
environment.systemPackages = []
++ optional cfg.man.enable manual.manpages
++ optionals cfg.doc.enable [ manual.manualHTML nixos-help ];
services.getty.helpLine = mkIf cfg.doc.enable (
"\nRun 'nixos-help' for the NixOS manual."
);
})
]);
}