Add `html-manual` Meson option to allow building manpages without the
HTML manual, removing the mdbook dependency for manpage-only builds.
Changes:
- Add `html-manual` Meson option (default: true)
- Make HTML manual build conditional in meson.build
- Add `buildHtmlManual` parameter to package.nix
- Conditional outputs: ["out" "man"] when enabled, ["out"] when disabled
- Make mdbook/rsync/json-schema-for-humans dependencies conditional
- Add `nix-manual-manpages-only` package variant
This allows systems that only need manpages to avoid the mdbook build
dependency while preserving full functionality for HTML manual builds.
About time we upgraded our nixpkgs flake input. Ideally
we'd have automation to do this.
Flake lock file updates:
• Updated input 'nixpkgs':
'github:NixOS/nixpkgs/adaa24fbf46737f3f1b5497bf64bae750f82942e?narHash=sha256-qhFMmDkeJX9KJwr5H32f1r7Prs7XbQWtO0h3V0a0rFY%3D' (2025-05-13)
→ 'github:NixOS/nixpkgs/cd32a774ac52caaa03bcfc9e7591ac8c18617ced?narHash=sha256-VtMQg02B3kt1oejwwrGn50U9Xbjgzfbb5TV5Wtx8dKI%3D' (2025-08-17)
This moves out the checks that get run in GHA CI into ci/gha/tests
folder and splits those into `topLevel` and `componentTests` attributes.
The idea behind this is to make it easier to parametrize tests that can
be run with sanitizers in order to run those as a matrix of jobs. The same
can be said for static builds.
Existing stdenv selection infrastructure via `lib.makeComponents` would
also allow us to switch over to using `clangStdenv` to significantly speed
up pre-merge CI (though the default stdenv would still be used for non-overridable
topLevel checks, like installer artifacts).
This was carefully refactored by inlining some Nixpkgs definitions
like `generateSplicesForMkScope`, so the memoization properties
should remain the same.
... by moving our stuff out of the way from upstream's
`nixComponents` and `nixDependencies` attrsets.
(I prefer not to use overlays, but let's make it work this way
first)
Some of the maintainer attribute names got changed in nixos-unstable
(e.g. "edolstra" is now "eelco") but we want this flake to work on
nixos-24.11. So just get rid of them.
Doing this makes catching non-obvious bugs easier. GHA CI workload is
already a concern and there isn't much benefit in running the tests with
and without sanitizers at the same time, so UBSAN is enabled for default
checks.
This change doesn't affect production builds in any way, but is rather a
step in the direction of improving automated testing during development.
Relates to #10969.
- Multiple choices of stdenv are handled more consistently, especially for the dev
shells which were previously not done correctly.
- Some stray nix code was moving into the `packaging` directory
Just now there is a dependency on cachix, which means we cannot test
the installer in CI if forks do not have the necessary secrets set up.
We replace this with a simple http server that serves the installer and
can be both used in CI and locally.
We *could* use a "native" manual instead - ie reusing a native
`nixpkgsFor.${buildPlatform}`, but this works, and also
works for possible cases where we have a custom or patched build tool.
