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.
most of the screen tags used in option docs are actually listings of
some sort. nsd had a notable exception where its screen usage was pretty
much a raw markdown block that made most sense to convert into docbook lists.
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.
Instead of patching the path to /public in Discourse's sources, make
the nginx configuration refer to the symlink in the discourse
package which points to the real path.
When there is a mismatch between the path nginx serves and the path
Discourse thinks it serves, we can run into issues like files not
being served - at least when sendfile requests from the ruby app are
processed by nginx. The issue I ran into most recently is that backup
downloads don't work.
Since Discourse refers to the public directory relative to the Rails
root in many places, it's much easier to just sync this path to the
nginx configuration than trying to patch all occurrences in the
sources. This should hopefully mean less potential for breakage in
future Discourse releases, too.
When restoring a backup, discourse decompresses the backup archive in
the /share/discourse/tmp dir. Before this change, it is linked to /run
which is typically backed by memory, so the backup will fail to
restore if you do not have enough memory on your system to contain the
backup. This has already happened to me on two small forums.
This moves tmp to the StateDirectory /var/lib/discourse/tmp which is
typically backed by disk.
For plugins to work properly, their assets need to be precompiled
along with the rest of Discourse's assets. This means we need to build
new packages when the list of plugins change.
Assert that the PostgreSQL version being deployed is the one used
upstream. Allow the user to override this assertion, since it's not
always possible or preferable to use the recommended one.
Using `replace-literal` to insert secrets leaks the secrets through
the `replace-literal` process' `/proc/<pid>/cmdline`
file. `replace-secret` solves this by reading the secret straight from
the file instead, which also simplifies the code a bit.
Bash doesn't handle subshell errors properly if the result is used as
input to a command. To cause the services to fail when the files can't
be read, we need to assign the value to a variable, then export it
separately.
