this adds support for structural includes to nixos-render-docs.
structural includes provide a way to denote the (sub)structure of the
nixos manual in the markdown source files, very similar to how we used
literal docbook blocks before, and are processed by nixos-render-docs
without involvement of xml tooling. this will ultimately allow us to
emit the nixos manual in other formats as well, e.g. html, without going
through docbook at all.
alternatives to this source layout were also considered:
a parallel structure using e.g. toml files that describe the document
tree and links to each part is possible, but much more complicated to
implement than the solution chosen here and makes it harder to follow
which files have what substructure. it also makes it much harder to
include a substructure in the middle of a file.
much the same goes for command-line arguments to the converter, only
that command-lined arguments are even harder to specify correctly and
cannot be reasonably pulled together from many places without involving
another layer of tooling. cli arguments would also mean that the manual
structure would be fixed in default.nix, which is also not ideal.
- inline copySources into single user
- remove `inherit sources` where it's not necessary
- inline generatedSources. this will go away completely soon so we may
as well.
- inline modulesDoc into manual-combined. this too will go away soon.
- inline sources into manual-combined. this too will go away soon.
once we generate the entire manual-combined.xml with a single
nixos-render-docs invocation we will no longer need any options xml
files. likewise we do not need the test options xml in the manpage
build. splitting manpages-combined from manual-combined also allows
these two to run in parallel, slightly improving build times.
man-configuration.xml is the only manpage we build using docbook at this
time, and man-pages.xml includes just this one file. inline
man-configuration.nix into man-pages.xml so we can refer to a single
file to grab the manpage sources later rather than using find-by-suffix.
render all manual chapters to docbook from scratch every time the manual
is built. nixos-render-docs is quick enough at this to not worry about
the cost (needing only about a second), and it means we can remove
md-to-db.sh in the next commit.
no changes to the rendered html manual except for replacements and smartquotes.
we'll soon add another docbook converter that does not emit a section as
a collection of chapters, but sections or chapters on their own. this
should clarify naming a bit before there can be any confusion.
since support for kbd elements was added with explicit intent in #175128
it seems like a good idea to support this in nixos-render-docs instead
of just dropping it in favor of `*F12*` etc. since it's a very rare
thing in the manual and purely presentational it makes sense to use
bracketed spans instead of a new myst role.
the html-elements.lua plugin is now somewhat misnamed, but it'll go away
very soon so we don't want to bother renaming it.
this is a lot easier than adding footnote support for just the one
instance. if a use case for footnotes appears in the future (e.g. if we
wanted to render the nixpkgs manual with nixos-render-docs as well) this
decision should be reevaluated.
nixos-render-docs supports inline anchors, but not ids for blocks. it
seems wise to reserve blocks for special cases that don't have other
syntax already, like admonitions.
pandoc drops .title classes when rendering to docbook, so these are
effectively just paragraphs anyway. without support for including them
in a table of contents the complexity of parsing them in
nixos-render-docs won't be warranted.
the examples for mkPackageOption weren't terminated, leading to pretty
odd nesting of docbook (and thus html) elements. close them properly.
also turn the (likewise unclosed) fenced div containing just an anchor
id and a class that will be silently dropped to an inline anchor while
we're here. we'd have to convert it anyway later.
markdown-it parses deflists slitghtly differently than pandoc does. in
these two cases pandoc would find a deflist item while markdown-it would
not, instead it'd find a lone colon and the rest of the text.
pandoc renders these to multiple docbook paragraphs in a single
definition for the term, not multiple *actual* definitions for the same
term. this is most likely not what is intended here, so let's use
multiple paragraphs instead.
this should be placed before the appendices, not between them. might
even have a good place in the development part, but that's a decision
for another day.
mdoc is just too slow to render on groff, and semantic markup doesn't
help us any for generated pages.
this produces a lot of changes to configuration.nix.5, but only few
rendering changes. most of those seem to be place losing a space where
docbook emitted roff code that did not faithfully represent the input
text, though a few places also gained space where docbook dropped them.
notably we also don't need the compatibility code docbook-xsl emitted
because that problem was fixed over a decade ago.
this will handle block quotes, which the docbook stylesheets turned into
a mess of roff requests that ended up showing up in the output instead
of being processed.
This patch provides input arguments `newuidmapPath` and `newgidmapPath`
for apptainer and singularity to specify the path to the SUID-ed executables
newuidmap and newgidmap where they are not available from the FHS PATH.
As NixOS places those suided executables in a non-FHS position
(/run/wrapper/bin), this patch provides
programs.singularity.enableFakeroot option and implement with the above
input parameters.
Upstream changes:
singularity 3.8.7 (the legacy) -> apptainer 1.1.3 (the renamed) / singularity 3.10.4 (Sylabs's fork)
Build process:
* Share between different sources
* Fix the sed regexp to make defaultPath patch work
* allowGoReference is now true
* Provied input parameter removeCompat (default to false)
that removes the compatible "*singularity*" symbolic links
and related autocompletion files when projectName != "singularity"
* Change localstatedir to /var/lib
* Format with nixpkgs-fmt
* Fix the defaultPath patching
and use it instead of the `<executable> path` config directive
deprecated in Apptainer
* Provide dependencies for new functionalities such as
squashfuse (unprivileged squashfs mount)
* Provide an attribute `defaultPathInputs` to override
prefix of container runtime default PATH
NixOS module programs.singularity:
* Allow users to specify packages
* Place related directories to /var/lib
* Format with nixpkgs-fmt
singularity-tools:
* Allow users to specify packages
* Place related directories to /var/lib when building images in VM
nixos/manual/manpages: add description on previewing manpage files
I was a bit lost with the new manpage format and it took me some time to
find the corresponding pull request by @pennae with a very helpful
comment of @alyssais that mentioned this:
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/213256#issuecomment-1407713215
As @pennae noted, the file path is only a fallback if it cannot be resolved in the man database
Co-authored-by: pennae <82953136+pennae@users.noreply.github.com>
This commit changes from a precompiled bundle to
a source file. Accordingly, the expression file is renamed to `default.nix`
and the old attribute name is changed to `tvbrowser`, the old one being now a
throw-message.
The upstream build script tries to download the news plugin; so, we provide
this and pass it as a parameter.
Given that this is still a piece of a precompiled Java bytecode, along with a
main readable source bundle, `meta.sourceProvenance` is updated accordingly.
since we want to move away from docbook and having docbook manpages
around is going to block further progress we have to translate the
current nixos manpages from docbook it *something* else. mdoc seems the
most appropriate choice since markdown can't represent all the things
manpages can differentiate with even more extensions. if we ever need
html manpages we can render them using troff, like many of the online
manpage viewers, or rewrite them again. since we haven't had html
manpages for any of these in many years that seems unlikely to happen.
unlike most of the recent markdown conversions this comes with a lot of
minor rendering changes, mostly in spacing. docbook-xslt creates manual
pages in a very different dialect than mdoc (which is used here).
As announced in the NixOS 22.11 release notes, 23.05 will switch NixOS
to using nsncd (a non-caching reimplementation in Rust) as NSS lookup
dispatcher, instead of the buggy and deprecated glibc-provided nscd.
If you need to switch back, set `services.nscd.enableNsncd = false`, but
please open an issue in nixpkgs so your issue can be fixed.
