# This module includes the NixOS man-pages in the system environment, # and optionally starts a browser that shows the NixOS manual on one # of the virtual consoles. The latter is useful for the installation # CD. { config, pkgs, baseModules, ... } @ extraArgs: with pkgs.lib; let cfg = config.services.nixosManual; versionModule = { system.nixosVersionSuffix = config.system.nixosVersionSuffix; system.nixosRevision = config.system.nixosRevision; }; eval = evalModules { modules = [ versionModule ] ++ baseModules; args = (removeAttrs extraArgs ["config" "options"]) // { modules = [ ]; }; }; manual = import ../../../doc/manual { inherit pkgs; revision = config.system.nixosRevision; options = eval.options; }; entry = "${manual.manual}/share/doc/nixos/manual.html"; help = pkgs.writeScriptBin "nixos-help" '' #! ${pkgs.stdenv.shell} -e browser="$BROWSER" if [ -z "$browser" ]; then browser="$(type -P xdg-open || true)" if [ -z "$browser" ]; then browser="$(type -P w3m || true)" if [ -z "$browser" ]; then echo "$0: unable to start a web browser; please set \$BROWSER" exit 1 fi fi fi exec "$browser" ${entry} ''; in { options = { services.nixosManual.enable = mkOption { default = true; type = types.bool; description = '' Whether to build the NixOS manual pages. ''; }; services.nixosManual.showManual = mkOption { default = false; description = '' Whether to show the NixOS manual on one of the virtual consoles. ''; }; services.nixosManual.ttyNumber = mkOption { default = "8"; description = '' Virtual console on which to show the manual. ''; }; services.nixosManual.browser = mkOption { default = "${pkgs.w3m}/bin/w3m"; description = '' Browser used to show the manual. ''; }; }; config = mkIf cfg.enable { system.build.manual = manual; environment.systemPackages = [ manual.manpages help ]; boot.extraTTYs = mkIf cfg.showManual ["tty${cfg.ttyNumber}"]; systemd.services = optionalAttrs cfg.showManual { "nixos-manual" = { description = "NixOS Manual"; wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ]; serviceConfig = { ExecStart = "${cfg.browser} ${entry}"; StandardInput = "tty"; StandardOutput = "tty"; TTYPath = "/dev/tty${cfg.ttyNumber}"; TTYReset = true; TTYVTDisallocate = true; Restart = "always"; }; }; }; services.mingetty.helpLine = mkIf cfg.showManual "\nPress for the NixOS manual."; }; }