This makes the following work
disabledModules = [ foo.nixosModules.bar ];
even if `bar` is not a path, but rather a module such as
{ key = "/path/to/foo#nixosModules.bar"; config = ...; }
By supporting this, the user will often be able to use the same syntax
for both importing and disabling a module. This is becoming more relevant
because flakes promote the use of attributes to reference modules. Not
all of these modules in flake attributes will be identifiable, but with
the help of a framework such as flake-parts, these attributes can be
guaranteed to be identifiable (by outPath + attribute path).
This makes bisecting nix a bit easier.
Example reproducer, invoked from nix directory:
```bash
nix-build ../nixpkgs/lib/tests/release.nix --arg nix '(builtins.getFlake "git+file://${toString ./.}").packages.x86_64-linux.default'
```
Render un`_type`d defaults and examples as `literalExpression`s using
`lib.generators.toPretty` so that consumers don't have to reinvent Nix
pretty-printing. `renderOptionValue` is kept internal for now intentionally.
Make `toPretty` print floats as valid Nix values (without a tilde).
Get rid of the now-obsolete `substSpecial` function.
Move towards disallowing evaluation of packages in the manual by
raising a warning on `pkgs.foo.{outPath,drvPath}`; later, this should
throw an error. Instead, module authors should use `literalExpression`
and `mkPackageOption`.
With the goal of making `toPretty` suitable for rendering option
values, render derivations as `<derivation foo-1.0>` instead of
`<derivation /nix/store/…-foo-1.0.drv>`.
This is to avoid causing sudden evaluation errors for out-of-tree
projects that have options with `default = pkgs.someUnfreePackage;` and
no `defaultText`.
Add trace items that provide context for a failed definition that
can not be caught within the Nix language.
This also adds a test for the `tryEval` behavior of `showDefs`.
A tricky thing about FreeBSD is that there is no stable ABI across
versions. That means that putting in the version as part of the config
string is paramount.
We have a parsed represenation that separates name versus version to
accomplish this. We include FreeBSD versions 12 and 13 to demonstrate
how it works.
The motivation is to have a single identifier for that. Useful for the
next commit where I'll try to escape option-parts correctly (options can
be any kind of strings, but unless these are Nix identifiers, they must
be quoted).
Since `<function body>` (or `<name>`/`*`) are special identifiers in
error messages and the manual, we need a unique way to mark an option
part as function call because these are not to be quoted.
This is particularly useful for disabling modules defined in a flake.
Example:
disabledModules = [ "${flake}/modules/mymodule.nix" ];
Previously, absolute string paths were internally prepended with `modulesPath`,
which caused the module filtering to fail.
`m` must always be an attrset at this point. It is basically always
evaluated. This will make it throw when any of the attrs is accessed,
rather than just `config`. We assume that this will improve the error
message in more scenarios.
