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.
This is a major rewrite of the Privoxy module:
- As per RFC0042, remove privoxy.extraConfig and replace it
with a privoxy.settings option, which maps a NixOS freeform
submodule to the Privoxy configuration format.
- Move all top-level options that mirrored a setting to
the real ones in privoxy.settings. This still keeps the
type-checking, default values and examples in places.
- Add two convenience options: userActions and userFilters, which
simplify the operation of creating a file with pkgs.writeText,
converting it to a string and adding it to the actionsfile/
filterfile list.
- Add a privoxy.inspectHttps option to automagically setup TLS
decryption support. I don't know how long have been waiting
for this feature: can't believe it has just happened.
- Also add a privoxy.certsLifetime to control the periodical
cleanup of the temporary certificates generate by Privoxy.
It's very surprising that services.tor.client.enable would set
services.privoxy.enable. This violates the principle of least
astonishment, because it's Privoxy that can integrate with Tor, rather
than the other way around.
So this patch moves the Privoxy Tor integration to the Privoxy module,
and it also disables it by default. This change is documented in the
release notes.
Reported-by: V <v@anomalous.eu>
Using pkgs.lib on the spine of module evaluation is problematic
because the pkgs argument depends on the result of module
evaluation. To prevent an infinite recursion, pkgs and some of the
modules are evaluated twice, which is inefficient. Using ‘with lib’
prevents this problem.
