# This module defines a global environment configuration and
# a common configuration for all shells.
{ config, lib, utils, pkgs, ... }:
with lib;
let
cfg = config.environment;
exportedEnvVars =
let
absoluteVariables =
mapAttrs (n: toList) cfg.variables;
suffixedVariables =
flip mapAttrs cfg.profileRelativeEnvVars (envVar: listSuffixes:
concatMap (profile: map (suffix: "${profile}${suffix}") listSuffixes) cfg.profiles
);
allVariables =
zipAttrsWith (n: concatLists) [ absoluteVariables suffixedVariables ];
exportVariables =
mapAttrsToList (n: v: ''export ${n}="${concatStringsSep ":" v}"'') allVariables;
in
concatStringsSep "\n" exportVariables;
in
{
options = {
environment.variables = mkOption {
default = {};
description = ''
A set of environment variables used in the global environment.
These variables will be set on shell initialisation (e.g. in /etc/profile).
The value of each variable can be either a string or a list of
strings. The latter is concatenated, interspersed with colon
characters.
'';
type = with types; attrsOf (either str (listOf str));
apply = mapAttrs (n: v: if isList v then concatStringsSep ":" v else v);
};
environment.profiles = mkOption {
default = [];
description = ''
A list of profiles used to setup the global environment.
'';
type = types.listOf types.str;
};
environment.profileRelativeEnvVars = mkOption {
type = types.attrsOf (types.listOf types.str);
example = { PATH = [ "/bin" ]; MANPATH = [ "/man" "/share/man" ]; };
description = ''
Attribute set of environment variable. Each attribute maps to a list
of relative paths. Each relative path is appended to the each profile
of to form the content of the
corresponding environment variable.
'';
};
# !!! isn't there a better way?
environment.extraInit = mkOption {
default = "";
description = ''
Shell script code called during global environment initialisation
after all variables and profileVariables have been set.
This code is asumed to be shell-independent, which means you should
stick to pure sh without sh word split.
'';
type = types.lines;
};
environment.shellInit = mkOption {
default = "";
description = ''
Shell script code called during shell initialisation.
This code is asumed to be shell-independent, which means you should
stick to pure sh without sh word split.
'';
type = types.lines;
};
environment.loginShellInit = mkOption {
default = "";
description = ''
Shell script code called during login shell initialisation.
This code is asumed to be shell-independent, which means you should
stick to pure sh without sh word split.
'';
type = types.lines;
};
environment.interactiveShellInit = mkOption {
default = "";
description = ''
Shell script code called during interactive shell initialisation.
This code is asumed to be shell-independent, which means you should
stick to pure sh without sh word split.
'';
type = types.lines;
};
environment.shellAliases = mkOption {
default = {};
example = { ll = "ls -l"; };
description = ''
An attribute set that maps aliases (the top level attribute names in
this option) to command strings or directly to build outputs. The
aliases are added to all users' shells.
'';
type = types.attrs; # types.attrsOf types.stringOrPath;
};
environment.binsh = mkOption {
default = "${config.system.build.binsh}/bin/sh";
defaultText = "\${config.system.build.binsh}/bin/sh";
example = literalExample ''
"''${pkgs.dash}/bin/dash"
'';
type = types.path;
visible = false;
description = ''
The shell executable that is linked system-wide to
/bin/sh. Please note that NixOS assumes all
over the place that shell to be Bash, so override the default
setting only if you know exactly what you're doing.
'';
};
environment.shells = mkOption {
default = [];
example = literalExample "[ pkgs.bashInteractive pkgs.zsh ]";
description = ''
A list of permissible login shells for user accounts.
No need to mention /bin/sh
here, it is placed into this list implicitly.
'';
type = types.listOf (types.either types.shellPackage types.path);
};
};
config = {
system.build.binsh = pkgs.bashInteractive;
# Set session variables in the shell as well. This is usually
# unnecessary, but it allows changes to session variables to take
# effect without restarting the session (e.g. by opening a new
# terminal instead of logging out of X11).
environment.variables = config.environment.sessionVariables;
environment.etc."shells".text =
''
${concatStringsSep "\n" (map utils.toShellPath cfg.shells)}
/bin/sh
'';
system.build.setEnvironment = pkgs.writeText "set-environment"
''
${exportedEnvVars}
${cfg.extraInit}
# ~/bin if it exists overrides other bin directories.
export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
'';
system.activationScripts.binsh = stringAfter [ "stdio" ]
''
# Create the required /bin/sh symlink; otherwise lots of things
# (notably the system() function) won't work.
mkdir -m 0755 -p /bin
ln -sfn "${cfg.binsh}" /bin/.sh.tmp
mv /bin/.sh.tmp /bin/sh # atomically replace /bin/sh
'';
};
}