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home-manager/docs/default.nix
Robert Helgesson 710771af3d
docs: add a poison module
The poison module is intended to catch cases where the documentation
depends on the user's configuration. We want to keep such dependencies
to a minimum as it increases the risk of documentation rebuilds and
confusion caused by documentation being different depending on the
source.
2025-07-27 07:52:42 +02:00

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Nix

{
pkgs,
# Note, this should be "the standard library" + HM extensions.
lib ? import ../modules/lib/stdlib-extended.nix pkgs.lib,
release,
isReleaseBranch,
}:
let
# Recursively replace each derivation in the given attribute set
# with the same derivation but with the `outPath` attribute set to
# the string `"\${pkgs.attribute.path}"`. This allows the
# documentation to refer to derivations through their values without
# establishing an actual dependency on the derivation output.
#
# This is not perfect, but it seems to cover a vast majority of use
# cases.
#
# Caveat: even if the package is reached by a different means, the
# path above will be shown and not e.g.
# `${config.services.foo.package}`.
scrubDerivations =
prefixPath: attrs:
let
scrubDerivation =
name: value:
let
pkgAttrName = prefixPath + "." + name;
in
if lib.isAttrs value then
scrubDerivations pkgAttrName value
// lib.optionalAttrs (lib.isDerivation value) {
outPath = "\${${pkgAttrName}}";
}
else
value;
in
lib.mapAttrs scrubDerivation attrs;
# Make sure the used package is scrubbed to avoid actually
# instantiating derivations.
scrubbedPkgsModule = {
imports = [
{
_module.args = {
pkgs = lib.mkForce (scrubDerivations "pkgs" pkgs);
pkgs_i686 = lib.mkForce { };
};
}
];
};
dontCheckDefinitions = {
_module.check = false;
};
gitHubDeclaration =
user: repo: subpath:
let
urlRef = if isReleaseBranch then "release-${release}" else "master";
in
{
url = "https://github.com/${user}/${repo}/blob/${urlRef}/${subpath}";
name = "<${repo}/${subpath}>";
};
hmPath = toString ./..;
buildOptionsDocs =
args@{
modules,
includeModuleSystemOptions ? true,
...
}:
let
# to discourage references from option descriptions and defaults.
poisonModule =
let
poisonAttr = n: {
name = n;
value = abort ''
error: the option documentation has a dependency on the configuration.
You may, for example, have added an option attribute like
default = ''${config.some.value};
Since the default value is included in the Home Manager manual, this
would make the manual depend on the user's configuration.
To avoid this problem in this particular case, consider changing to
default = ''${config.some.value};
defaultText = lib.literalExpression "\\''${config.some.value}";'';
};
in
{ options, ... }:
{
config = lib.listToAttrs (map poisonAttr (lib.filter (n: n != "_module") (lib.attrNames options)));
};
options =
(lib.evalModules {
modules = modules ++ [ poisonModule ];
class = "homeManager";
}).options;
in
pkgs.buildPackages.nixosOptionsDoc (
{
options =
if includeModuleSystemOptions then options else builtins.removeAttrs options [ "_module" ];
transformOptions =
opt:
opt
// {
# Clean up declaration sites to not refer to the Home Manager
# source tree.
declarations = map (
decl:
if lib.hasPrefix hmPath (toString decl) then
gitHubDeclaration "nix-community" "home-manager" (
lib.removePrefix "/" (lib.removePrefix hmPath (toString decl))
)
else if decl == "lib/modules.nix" then
# TODO: handle this in a better way (may require upstream
# changes to nixpkgs)
gitHubDeclaration "NixOS" "nixpkgs" decl
else
decl
) opt.declarations;
};
}
// builtins.removeAttrs args [
"modules"
"includeModuleSystemOptions"
]
);
hmOptionsDocs = buildOptionsDocs {
modules =
import ../modules/modules.nix {
inherit lib pkgs;
check = false;
}
++ [ scrubbedPkgsModule ];
variablelistId = "home-manager-options";
};
nixosOptionsDocs = buildOptionsDocs {
modules = [
../nixos
scrubbedPkgsModule
dontCheckDefinitions
];
includeModuleSystemOptions = false;
variablelistId = "nixos-options";
optionIdPrefix = "nixos-opt-";
};
nixDarwinOptionsDocs = buildOptionsDocs {
modules = [
../nix-darwin
scrubbedPkgsModule
dontCheckDefinitions
];
includeModuleSystemOptions = false;
variablelistId = "nix-darwin-options";
optionIdPrefix = "nix-darwin-opt-";
};
release-config = builtins.fromJSON (builtins.readFile ../release.json);
revision = "release-${release-config.release}";
# Generate the `man home-configuration.nix` package
home-configuration-manual =
pkgs.runCommand "home-configuration-reference-manpage"
{
nativeBuildInputs = [
pkgs.buildPackages.installShellFiles
pkgs.nixos-render-docs
];
allowedReferences = [ "out" ];
}
''
# Generate manpages.
mkdir -p $out/share/man/man5
mkdir -p $out/share/man/man1
nixos-render-docs -j $NIX_BUILD_CORES options manpage \
--revision ${revision} \
--header ${./home-configuration-nix-header.5} \
--footer ${./home-configuration-nix-footer.5} \
${hmOptionsDocs.optionsJSON}/share/doc/nixos/options.json \
$out/share/man/man5/home-configuration.nix.5
cp ${./home-manager.1} $out/share/man/man1/home-manager.1
'';
# Generate the HTML manual pages
home-manager-manual = pkgs.callPackage ./home-manager-manual.nix {
home-manager-options = {
home-manager = hmOptionsDocs.optionsJSON;
nixos = nixosOptionsDocs.optionsJSON;
nix-darwin = nixDarwinOptionsDocs.optionsJSON;
};
inherit revision;
};
html = home-manager-manual;
htmlOpenTool = pkgs.callPackage ./html-open-tool.nix { } { inherit html; };
in
{
options = {
# TODO: Use `hmOptionsDocs.optionsJSON` directly once upstream
# `nixosOptionsDoc` is more customizable.
json =
pkgs.runCommand "options.json"
{
meta.description = "List of Home Manager options in JSON format";
}
''
mkdir -p $out/{share/doc,nix-support}
cp -a ${hmOptionsDocs.optionsJSON}/share/doc/nixos $out/share/doc/home-manager
substitute \
${hmOptionsDocs.optionsJSON}/nix-support/hydra-build-products \
$out/nix-support/hydra-build-products \
--replace-fail \
'${hmOptionsDocs.optionsJSON}/share/doc/nixos' \
"$out/share/doc/home-manager"
'';
};
manPages = home-configuration-manual;
manual = { inherit html htmlOpenTool; };
# Unstable, mainly for CI.
jsonModuleMaintainers = pkgs.writeText "hm-module-maintainers.json" (
let
result = lib.evalModules {
modules =
import ../modules/modules.nix {
inherit lib pkgs;
check = false;
}
++ [ scrubbedPkgsModule ];
class = "homeManager";
};
in
builtins.toJSON result.config.meta.maintainers
);
}