# 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. `${config.services.foo.package}`. */ manual = import ../../../doc/manual rec { inherit pkgs config; version = config.system.nixos.release; revision = "release-${version}"; options = let scrubbedEval = evalModules { modules = [ { nixpkgs.localSystem = config.nixpkgs.localSystem; } ] ++ 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" '' #! ${pkgs.runtimeShell} -e browser="$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" ${entry} ''; desktopItem = pkgs.makeDesktopItem { name = "nixos-manual"; desktopName = "NixOS Manual"; genericName = "View NixOS documentation in a web browser"; icon = "nix-snowflake"; exec = "${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 = "${pkgs.w3m-nographics}/bin/w3m"; description = '' Browser used to show the manual. ''; }; }; config = mkIf cfg.enable { system.build.manual = manual; environment.systemPackages = [] ++ optionals config.services.xserver.enable [ desktopItem pkgs.nixos-icons ] ++ optional config.documentation.man.enable manual.manpages ++ optionals config.documentation.doc.enable [ manual.manual helpScript ]; boot.extraTTYs = mkIf cfg.showManual ["tty${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 = "\nRun `nixos-help` " + lib.optionalString cfg.showManual "or press " + "for the NixOS manual."; }; }