{ config, lib, pkgs, baseModules, extraModules, modules, modulesPath, ... }:
with lib;
let
cfg = config.documentation;
manualModules = baseModules ++ optionals cfg.nixos.includeAllModules (extraModules ++ modules);
/* For the purpose of generating docs, evaluate options with each derivation
in `pkgs` (recursively) replaced by a fake with path "\${pkgs.attribute.path}".
It isn't perfect, but it seems to cover a vast majority of use cases.
Caveat: even if the package is reached by a different means,
the path above will be shown and not e.g. `${config.services.foo.package}`. */
manual = import ../../doc/manual rec {
inherit pkgs config;
version = config.system.nixos.release;
revision = "release-${version}";
extraSources = cfg.nixos.extraModuleSources;
options =
let
scrubbedEval = evalModules {
modules = [ { nixpkgs.localSystem = config.nixpkgs.localSystem; } ] ++ manualModules;
args = (config._module.args) // { modules = [ ]; };
specialArgs = {
pkgs = scrubDerivations "pkgs" pkgs;
inherit modulesPath;
};
};
scrubDerivations = namePrefix: pkgSet: mapAttrs
(name: value:
let wholeName = "${namePrefix}.${name}"; in
if isAttrs value then
scrubDerivations wholeName value
// (optionalAttrs (isDerivation value) { outPath = "\${${wholeName}}"; })
else value
)
pkgSet;
in scrubbedEval.options;
};
nixos-help = let
helpScript = pkgs.writeShellScriptBin "nixos-help" ''
# Finds first executable browser in a colon-separated list.
# (see how xdg-open defines BROWSER)
browser="$(
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
];
};
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.xml
};
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).
'';
};
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.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 = literalExample ''
# 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 = [ "man" ] ++ optional cfg.dev.enable "devman";
environment.etc."man_db.conf".text =
let
manualPages = pkgs.buildEnv {
name = "man-paths";
paths = config.environment.systemPackages;
pathsToLink = [ "/share/man" ];
extraOutputsToInstall = ["man"];
ignoreCollisions = true;
};
manualCache = pkgs.runCommandLocal "man-cache" { }
''
echo "MANDB_MAP ${manualPages}/share/man $out" > man.conf
${pkgs.man-db}/bin/mandb -C man.conf -psc
'';
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 ]
++ optionals config.services.xserver.enable [ pkgs.nixos-icons ]);
services.mingetty.helpLine = mkIf cfg.doc.enable (
"\nRun 'nixos-help' for the NixOS manual."
);
})
]);
}