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.
a lot of markdown syntax has already snuck into option docs, many of it
predating the intent to migrate to markdown. we don't convert all of it
here, just that which is accompanied by docbook tags as well. the rest
can be converted by simply adding the mdDoc marker.
our xslt already replaces double line breaks with a paragraph close and
reopen. not using explicit para tags lets nix-doc-munge convert more
descriptions losslessly.
only whitespace changes to generated documents, except for two
strongswan options gaining paragraph two breaks they arguably should've
had anyway.
the conversion procedure is simple:
- find all things that look like options, ie calls to either `mkOption`
or `lib.mkOption` that take an attrset. remember the attrset as the
option
- for all options, find a `description` attribute who's value is not a
call to `mdDoc` or `lib.mdDoc`
- textually convert the entire value of the attribute to MD with a few
simple regexes (the set from mdize-module.sh)
- if the change produced a change in the manual output, discard
- if the change kept the manual unchanged, add some text to the
description to make sure we've actually found an option. if the
manual changes this time, keep the converted description
this procedure converts 80% of nixos options to markdown. around 2000
options remain to be inspected, but most of those fail the "does not
change the manual output check": currently the MD conversion process
does not faithfully convert docbook tags like <code> and <package>, so
any option using such tags will not be converted at all.
The type of ZNC's config option specifies that a configuration like
config.User.paul = null;
should be valid, which is useful for clearing/disabling property sets
like Users and Networks. However until now the config generator
implementation didn't actually cover null values, meaning you'd get an
error like
error: value is null while a set was expected, at /foo.nix:29:10
This fixes the implementation to correcly allow clearing of property
sets.
This was overlooked on a rebase of mine on master, when I didn't realize
that in the time of me writing the znc changes this new option got
introduced.
This option represents the ZNC configuration as a Nix value. It will be
converted to a syntactically valid file. This provides:
- Flexibility: Any ZNC option can be used
- Modularity: These values can be set from any NixOS module and will be
merged correctly
- Overridability: Default values can be overridden
Also done:
Remove unused/unneeded options, mkRemovedOptionModule unfortunately doesn't work
inside submodules (yet). The options userName and modulePackages were never used
to begin with
