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author | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2009-05-29 13:29:49 +0000 |
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committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2009-05-29 13:29:49 +0000 |
commit | 81d8c2e1c8d4c32f2485e24b286cca67cc66e1b0 (patch) | |
tree | c5cc73c55c9c5e41282e10e352ad00bb664638f3 /modules/programs/info.nix | |
parent | 548fb6a1a589d98d61bbb42750fcaba500be566b (diff) | |
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* Move the info wrapper into a module.
svn path=/nixos/branches/modular-nixos/; revision=15792
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1 files changed, 36 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/modules/programs/info.nix b/modules/programs/info.nix new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e3b8025f933 --- /dev/null +++ b/modules/programs/info.nix @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +{config, pkgs, ...}: + +let + + # Quick hack to make the `info' command work properly. `info' needs + # a "dir" file containing all the installed Info files, which we + # don't have (it would be impure to have a package installation + # update some global "dir" file). So this wrapper script around + # "info" builds a temporary "dir" file on the fly. This is a bit + # slow (on a cold cache) but not unacceptably so. + infoWrapper = pkgs.writeScriptBin "info" + '' + #! ${pkgs.stdenv.shell} + + dir=$(mktemp --tmpdir -d "info.dir.XXXXXX") + + if test -z "$dir"; then exit 1; fi + + trap 'rm -rf "$dir"' EXIT + + shopt -s nullglob + + for i in $(IFS=:; echo $INFOPATH); do + for j in $i/*.info; do + ${pkgs.texinfo}/bin/install-info --quiet $j $dir/dir + done + done + + INFOPATH=$dir:$INFOPATH ${pkgs.texinfo}/bin/info "$@" + ''; # */ + +in + +{ + environment.systemPackages = [infoWrapper]; +} |