this converts meta.doc into an md pointer, not an xml pointer. since we
no longer need xml for manual chapters we can also remove support for
manual chapters from md-to-db.sh
since pandoc converts smart quotes to docbook quote elements and our
nixos-render-docs does not we lose this distinction in the rendered
output. that's probably not that bad, our stylesheet didn't make use of
this anyway (and pre-23.05 versions of the chapters didn't use quote
elements either).
also updates the nixpkgs manual to clarify that option docs support all
extensions (although it doesn't support headings at all, so heading
anchors don't work by extension).
This provides an easy way to specify exclude patterns in config. It was
already possible via extraBackupOptions; this change creates a simpler,
similar to other backup services, way to specify them.
makes sure that program listing tags are separated from their contents
by exactly a newline character. this makes the markdown translation
easier to verify (since no new newlines need to be inserted), and
there's no rendering difference anyway.
Invoke `install` separately for each directory to get ownership right --
i.e. not always owned by root. When owned by root, user sessions break
as no user processes are allowed to create directores there. On normal
systems the directories already exist, but in clean environments / NixOS
test VMs, the bug shows.
Before:
$ namei -l /home/user1/.cache/borg
f: /home/user1/.cache/borg
drwxr-xr-x root root /
drwxr-xr-x root root home
drwx------ user1 users user1
drwxr-xr-x root root .cache
drwxr-xr-x user1 users borg
After:
$ namei -l /home/user1/.cache/borg
f: /home/user1/.cache/borg
drwxr-xr-x root root /
drwxr-xr-x root root home
drwx------ user1 users user1
drwxr-xr-x user1 users .cache
drwxr-xr-x user1 users borg
Adds a new option for backup jobs `inhibitsSleep` which prevents
the system from going to sleep while a backup is in progress.
Uses `systemd-inhibit`, which holds a "lock" that prevents the
system from sleeping while the process it invokes is running.
This did require wrapping the existing backup script using
`writeShellScript` so that it could be run by `systemd-inhibit`.
Configures the `--cache-dir` parameter for the prune and check commands run after backing up. For `check`, also adds a `checkOpts` flag to enable using the cache, since that is disabled by default.
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.
this mostly means marking options that use markdown already
appropriately and making a few adjustments so they still render
correctly. notable for nftables we have to transform the md links
because the manpage would not render them correctly otherwise.
now nix-doc-munge will not introduce whitespace changes when it replaces
manpage references with the MD equivalent.
no change to the manpage, changes to the HTML manual are whitespace only.
make (almost) all links appear on only a single line, with no
unnecessary whitespace, using double quotes for attributes. this lets us
automatically convert them to markdown easily.
the few remaining links are extremely long link in a gnome module, we'll
come back to those at a later date.
we can't embed syntactic annotations of this kind in markdown code
blocks without yet another extension. replaceable is rare enough to make
this not much worth it, so we'll go with «thing» instead. the module
system already uses this format for its placeholder names in attrsOf
paths.
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.
