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Diffstat (limited to 'nixos/doc/manual/default.nix')
| -rw-r--r-- | nixos/doc/manual/default.nix | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/default.nix b/nixos/doc/manual/default.nix index 9a96f201a397..95363c2458f5 100644 --- a/nixos/doc/manual/default.nix +++ b/nixos/doc/manual/default.nix @@ -15,13 +15,27 @@ let else if builtins.isFunction x then "<function>" else x; - # Clean up declaration sites to not refer to the NixOS source tree. + # Generate DocBook documentation for a list of packages + genRelatedPackages = packages: + let + unpack = p: if lib.isString p then { name = p; } else p; + describe = { name, package ? pkgs.${name}, comment ? "" }: + "<listitem>" + + "<para><option>pkgs.${name}</option> (${package.name}): ${package.meta.description or "???"}.</para>" + + lib.optionalString (comment != "") "\n<para>${comment}</para>" + # Lots of `longDescription's break DocBook, so we just wrap them into <programlisting> + + lib.optionalString (package.meta ? longDescription) "\n<programlisting>${package.meta.longDescription}</programlisting>" + + "</listitem>"; + in "<itemizedlist>${lib.concatStringsSep "\n" (map (p: describe (unpack p)) packages)}</itemizedlist>"; + optionsList' = lib.flip map optionsList (opt: opt // { + # Clean up declaration sites to not refer to the NixOS source tree. declarations = map stripAnyPrefixes opt.declarations; } // lib.optionalAttrs (opt ? example) { example = substFunction opt.example; } // lib.optionalAttrs (opt ? default) { default = substFunction opt.default; } - // lib.optionalAttrs (opt ? type) { type = substFunction opt.type; }); + // lib.optionalAttrs (opt ? type) { type = substFunction opt.type; } + // lib.optionalAttrs (opt ? relatedPackages) { relatedPackages = genRelatedPackages opt.relatedPackages; }); # We need to strip references to /nix/store/* from options, # including any `extraSources` if some modules came from elsewhere, |