nixos, lib: implement relatedPackages option

This allows one to specify "related packages" in NixOS that get rendered into
the configuration.nix(5) man page. The interface philosophy is pretty much
stolen from TeX bibliography.

See the next several commits for examples.

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/default.nix b/nixos/doc/manual/default.nix
index 9ee70ba59b7..66fa4f0ba43 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/default.nix
@@ -15,13 +15,43 @@ let
     else if lib.isFunction x then "<function>"
     else x;
 
-  # Clean up declaration sites to not refer to the NixOS source tree.
+  # Generate DocBook documentation for a list of packages. This is
+  # what `relatedPackages` option of `mkOption` from
+  # ../../../lib/options.nix influences.
+  #
+  # Each element of `relatedPackages` can be either
+  # - a string:  that will be interpreted as an attribute name from `pkgs`,
+  # - a list:    that will be interpreted as an attribute path from `pkgs`,
+  # - an attrset: that can specify `name`, `path`, `package`, `comment`
+  #   (either of `name`, `path` is required, the rest are optional).
+  genRelatedPackages = packages:
+    let
+      unpack = p: if lib.isString p then { name = p; }
+                  else if lib.isList p then { path = p; }
+                  else p;
+      describe = args:
+        let
+          name = args.name or (lib.concatStringsSep "." args.path);
+          path = args.path or [ args.name ];
+          package = args.package or (lib.attrByPath path (throw "Invalid package attribute path `${toString path}'") pkgs);
+        in "<listitem>"
+        + "<para><literal>pkgs.${name} (${package.meta.name})</literal>"
+        + lib.optionalString (!package.meta.evaluates) " <emphasis>[UNAVAILABLE]</emphasis>"
+        + ": ${package.meta.description or "???"}.</para>"
+        + lib.optionalString (args ? comment) "\n<para>${args.comment}</para>"
+        # Lots of `longDescription's break DocBook, so we just wrap them into <programlisting>
+        + lib.optionalString (package.meta ? longDescription) "\n<programlisting>${package.meta.longDescription}</programlisting>"
+        + "</listitem>";
+    in "<itemizedlist>${lib.concatStringsSep "\n" (map (p: describe (unpack p)) packages)}</itemizedlist>";
+
   optionsListDesc = lib.flip map optionsListVisible (opt: opt // {
+    # Clean up declaration sites to not refer to the NixOS source tree.
     declarations = map stripAnyPrefixes opt.declarations;
   }
   // lib.optionalAttrs (opt ? example) { example = substFunction opt.example; }
   // lib.optionalAttrs (opt ? default) { default = substFunction opt.default; }
-  // lib.optionalAttrs (opt ? type) { type = substFunction opt.type; });
+  // lib.optionalAttrs (opt ? type) { type = substFunction opt.type; }
+  // lib.optionalAttrs (opt ? relatedPackages) { relatedPackages = genRelatedPackages opt.relatedPackages; });
 
   # We need to strip references to /nix/store/* from options,
   # including any `extraSources` if some modules came from elsewhere,