nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/misc/nixos-manual.nix
2017-03-14 06:04:43 -04:00

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# This module includes the NixOS man-pages in the system environment,
# and optionally starts a browser that shows the NixOS manual on one
# of the virtual consoles. The latter is useful for the installation
# CD.
{ config, lib, pkgs, baseModules, ... }:
with lib;
let
cfg = config.services.nixosManual;
/* 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. `${config.services.foo.package}`. */
manual = import ../../../doc/manual {
inherit pkgs config;
version = config.system.nixosRelease;
revision = "release-${config.system.nixosRelease}";
options =
let
scrubbedEval = evalModules {
modules = [ { nixpkgs.system = config.nixpkgs.system; } ] ++ baseModules;
args = (config._module.args) // { modules = [ ]; };
specialArgs = { pkgs = scrubDerivations "pkgs" pkgs; };
};
scrubDerivations = namePrefix: pkgSet: mapAttrs
(name: value:
let wholeName = "${namePrefix}.${name}"; in
if isAttrs value then
scrubDerivations wholeName value
// (optionalAttrs (isDerivation value) { outPath = "\${${wholeName}}"; })
else value
)
pkgSet;
in scrubbedEval.options;
};
entry = "${manual.manual}/share/doc/nixos/index.html";
helpScript = pkgs.writeScriptBin "nixos-help"
''
#! ${pkgs.stdenv.shell} -e
browser="$BROWSER"
if [ -z "$browser" ]; then
browser="$(type -P xdg-open || true)"
if [ -z "$browser" ]; then
browser="$(type -P w3m || true)"
if [ -z "$browser" ]; then
echo "$0: unable to start a web browser; please set \$BROWSER"
exit 1
fi
fi
fi
exec "$browser" ${entry}
'';
desktopItem = pkgs.makeDesktopItem {
name = "nixos-manual";
desktopName = "NixOS Manual";
genericName = "View NixOS documentation in a web browser";
# TODO: find a better icon (Nix logo + help overlay?)
icon = "system-help";
exec = "${helpScript}/bin/nixos-help";
categories = "System";
};
in
{
options = {
services.nixosManual.enable = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = true;
description = ''
Whether to build the NixOS manual pages.
'';
};
services.nixosManual.showManual = mkOption {
type = types.bool;
default = false;
description = ''
Whether to show the NixOS manual on one of the virtual
consoles.
'';
};
services.nixosManual.ttyNumber = mkOption {
type = types.int;
default = 8;
description = ''
Virtual console on which to show the manual.
'';
};
services.nixosManual.browser = mkOption {
type = types.path;
default = "${pkgs.w3m-nox}/bin/w3m";
description = ''
Browser used to show the manual.
'';
};
};
config = mkIf cfg.enable {
system.build.manual = manual;
environment.systemPackages =
[ manual.manual helpScript ]
++ optional config.services.xserver.enable desktopItem
++ optional config.programs.man.enable manual.manpages;
boot.extraTTYs = mkIf cfg.showManual ["tty${toString cfg.ttyNumber}"];
systemd.services = optionalAttrs cfg.showManual
{ "nixos-manual" =
{ description = "NixOS Manual";
wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
serviceConfig =
{ ExecStart = "${cfg.browser} ${entry}";
StandardInput = "tty";
StandardOutput = "tty";
TTYPath = "/dev/tty${toString cfg.ttyNumber}";
TTYReset = true;
TTYVTDisallocate = true;
Restart = "always";
};
};
};
services.mingetty.helpLine = mkIf cfg.showManual
"\nPress <Alt-F${toString cfg.ttyNumber}> for the NixOS manual.";
};
}