See the discussion below the original PR[1] and #197443 for more
context.
I guess I missed that upon review because the branch was too old and I
cherry-picked the commit onto my deployment branch which is based on
22.05. Sorry for that!
[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/162784#issuecomment-1306848036
Netdev collector needs AF_NETLINK permissions to work. It will fail with
the message "couldn't get netstats: socket: address family is not
supported by protocol" otherwise.
The current `ExecStart` will not allow for multiple sockets to properly
be passed to the program since the extra newline character is interpreted to
be part of the socket path.
conversions were done using https://github.com/pennae/nix-doc-munge
using (probably) rev f34e145 running
nix-doc-munge nixos/**/*.nix
nix-doc-munge --import nixos/**/*.nix
the tool ensures that only changes that could affect the generated
manual *but don't* are committed, other changes require manual review
and are discarded.
this notable also now interprets a markdown-flavored list in
triton_sd_config as actual markdown and renders it differently, but this
is arguably for the better (and probably the original intention).
no other rendering changes.
there seems to be a lot of markdown in the prometheus module that
should've been docbook instead. temporarily convert it to docbook to
keep the diff for the docbook->md conversion of prometheus inspectable.
this renders the same in the manpage and a little more clearly in the
html manual. in the manpage there continues to be no distinction from
regular text, the html manual gets code-type markup (which was probably
the intention for most of these uses anyway).
now nix-doc-munge will not introduce whitespace changes when it replaces
manpage references with the MD equivalent.
no change to the manpage, changes to the HTML manual are whitespace only.
make (almost) all links appear on only a single line, with no
unnecessary whitespace, using double quotes for attributes. this lets us
automatically convert them to markdown easily.
the few remaining links are extremely long link in a gnome module, we'll
come back to those at a later date.
the conversion procedure is simple:
- find all things that look like options, ie calls to either `mkOption`
or `lib.mkOption` that take an attrset. remember the attrset as the
option
- for all options, find a `description` attribute who's value is not a
call to `mdDoc` or `lib.mdDoc`
- textually convert the entire value of the attribute to MD with a few
simple regexes (the set from mdize-module.sh)
- if the change produced a change in the manual output, discard
- if the change kept the manual unchanged, add some text to the
description to make sure we've actually found an option. if the
manual changes this time, keep the converted description
this procedure converts 80% of nixos options to markdown. around 2000
options remain to be inspected, but most of those fail the "does not
change the manual output check": currently the MD conversion process
does not faithfully convert docbook tags like <code> and <package>, so
any option using such tags will not be converted at all.
For reference:
- ./nixos/modules/services/monitoring/grafana.nix
- 80192f1fe3/debian/service
- 5894b9b77a/trunk/prometheus.service
I have omitted the Limit* as they do not appear to be commonly used in
NixOS, and, per `man systemd.exec`, are less preferred vs. cgroup
limits.
