A few places used Unicode U+2018/U+2019 left/right single quotes (but
not always correctly balanced). Let's just use plain ASCII single quotes
everywhere.
- Extensive documentation in NixOS manual
- Deterministic mode that fixes various identifiers relative to disk
partitions and filesystems in ext4 case
- UEFI variable recording
Render un`_type`d defaults and examples as `literalExpression`s using
`lib.generators.toPretty` so that consumers don't have to reinvent Nix
pretty-printing. `renderOptionValue` is kept internal for now intentionally.
Make `toPretty` print floats as valid Nix values (without a tilde).
Get rid of the now-obsolete `substSpecial` function.
Move towards disallowing evaluation of packages in the manual by
raising a warning on `pkgs.foo.{outPath,drvPath}`; later, this should
throw an error. Instead, module authors should use `literalExpression`
and `mkPackageOption`.
Unlike the XML doc renderer, the AsciiDoc and CommonMark renderers don't
pretty-print certain complex types, like literal expressions, DocBook
literals, and derivations. These types are dumped into the documentation
as JSON.
This commit parses and unwraps these types when loading the
JSON-formatted NixOS options. The AsciiDoc and CommonMark renders have
also been combined into a single script to allow code reuse.
Before this patch, if we:
1. add a new user in the config,
2. mount /home seperately,
3. not set neededForBoot for /home,
4. and run `nixos-rebuild boot`,
the newly added user's home will not be created after a reboot. This
is because when nixos/modules/config/update-users-groups.pl is running
in stage 2 to setup users, /home is not mounted.
This patch fixes this issue.
\<foo\> will often be displayed like \<foo>, for example by mkdocs.
I've tested a number of markdown renderers and they render html escape
sequences fine.
Until this commit, the documentation suggested `multi-user.target`
as `wantedBy` for all services.
Since `multi-user.target` is not available for user services,
propose a different default for those in the documentation.
Co-authored-by: Naïm Favier <n@monade.li>
Co-authored-by: Florian Warzecha <liketechnik@disroot.org>
Provide a window during which both solutions are valid without
warnings, in order to fight warning fatigue, and not to push 3rd
party repo maintainers to add unnecessary compat code.
Fixes the problem introduced by 12b3066aae
which caused nixos/release.nix to return the wrong attributes, while
intending to only affect nixos/lib's runTest.
This also removes callTest from the test options, because callTest is
only ever invoked by all-tests.nix.
It has been replaced by the modular test framework in nixos/lib/testing.
If you are looking for a way to produce a VM-test-like configuration
outside of the test framework, use the nixos/lib/testing/nixos-test-base.nix
NixOS module, possibly in combination with { _module.args.nodes = .....; }.
Before this, it relied on being able to `imports` from the `name`
module argument, which wasn't really necessary and required a
potentially quite breaking change. We can revert that now.
This is a decomposition of the testing-python.nix and build-vms.nix
files into modules.
By refactoring the glue, we accomplish the following:
- NixOS tests can now use `imports` and other module system features.
- Network-wide test setup can now be reusable; example:
- A setup with all VMs configured to use a DNS server
- Split long, slow tests into multiple tests that import a
common module that has most of the setup.
- Type checking for the test arguments
- (TBD) "generated" options reference docs
- Aspects that had to be wired through all the glue are now in their
own files.
- Chief example: interactive.nix.
- Also: network.nix
In rewriting this, I've generally stuck as close as possible to the
existing code; copying pieces of logic and rewiring them, without
changing the logic itself.
I've made two exceptions to this rule
- Introduction of `extraDriverArgs` instead of hardcoded
interactivity logic.
- Incorporation of https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/144110
in testScript.nix.
I might revert the latter and split it into a new commit.
deprecate literalDocBook by adding a warning (that will not fire yet) to
its uses and other docbook literal strings by adding optional warning
message to mergeJSON.
For example, the wait_for_unit() call in the Moodle test times out for
myself and others[1], so it would be good to be able to increase it to
something less likely to be hit by a test that would otherwise pass.
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/177052#issue-1266336706
conversions were done using https://github.com/pennae/nix-doc-munge
using (probably) rev f34e145 running
nix-doc-munge nixos/**/*.nix
nix-doc-munge --import nixos/**/*.nix
the tool ensures that only changes that could affect the generated
manual *but don't* are committed, other changes require manual review
and are discarded.
leaving some newlines around after an admonition was closed causes the
newline rule to match, which in turn inserts literallayout newlines into
te xml output. that's not what we want.
Pass `-t` to pixz to prevent it from appending an index to the end of
the uncompressed stream, confusing tools such as `machinectl import-tar`.
Fixes: #187816
with ever more options being markdown rather than docbook the conversion
time is starting to become a significant factor of doc build time.
luckily we can pre-convert all nixos option docs to MD and cache the
result of this conversion, then merge the already-converted json file
with user option docs. we leave options.json unconverted to keep it as
close to the actual nix code as possible.
during docs conversion it can be very useful to know exactly *where* the
error the script complained about is. the name of the option should be
sufficient since option merging is rather rare, and won't merge doc
attributes anyway.
