nixpkgs/modules/config/shells-environment.nix
Jan Malakhovski b3f4040512 Radically change the way NixOS handles environment variables and make it possible not to use Bash as the default interactive shell.
This change does two things:

* "NixOSizes" environment variables generation. This allows some more
  error-checking and opens possibilities for a modular environment
  configuration. From now on the most of environment variables are
  generated directly by the nix code. Generating sh code that
  generates environment variables is left in a few places where
  nontrivial access to a local environment state is needed.
* By doing the first change this patch untangles bash from the
  environment configuration and makes it trivial to add a support for
  other non bash-compatible shells.

Now to the sad part. This change is quite large (and I'm not sure it's
possible to split it) and yet is not quite complete, it needs some
changes to nixpkgs to be perfect.
See !!! comments in modules/config/shells-environment.nix.

Main principle behind this change is "change environment generation
and nothing else". In particular, shell configuration principles stay
exactly the same as before.
2013-09-23 16:55:25 +00:00

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# This module defines a global environment configuration and
# a common configuration for all shells.
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
with pkgs.lib;
let
cfg = config.environment;
environOpts = { name, config, ... }: {
options = {
value = mkOption {
example = "/foo/bin";
description =
''
Variable value.
Exactly one of this or <option>list</option> must be set.
'';
type = types.uniq types.string;
};
list = mkOption {
default = null;
example = [ "/foo/bin" "/bar/bin" ];
description =
''
Variable value.
Exactly one of this or <option>value</option> must be set.
'';
type = types.nullOr (types.listOf types.string);
};
};
config = {
value = mkIf (config.list != null)
(concatStringsSep ":" config.list);
};
};
in
{
options = {
environment.variables = mkOption {
default = {};
description = ''
A set of environment variables used in the global environment.
'';
type = types.attrsOf types.optionSet;
options = [ environOpts ];
};
environment.profiles = mkOption {
default = [];
description = ''
A list of profiles used to setup the global environment.
'';
type = types.listOf types.string;
};
environment.profileVariables = mkOption {
default = (p: {});
description = ''
A function which given a profile path should give back
a set of environment variables for that profile.
'';
# !!! this should be of the following type:
#type = types.functionTo (types.attrsOf (types.optionSet envVar));
# and envVar should be changed to something more like environOpts.
# Having unique `value' _or_ multiple `list' is much more useful
# than just sticking everything together with ':' unconditionally.
# Anyway, to have this type mentioned above
# types.optionSet needs to be transformed into a type constructor
# (it has a !!! mark on that in nixpkgs)
# for now we hack all this to be
type = types.functionTo (types.attrsOf (types.listOf types.string));
};
# !!! isn't there a better way?
environment.extraInit = mkOption {
default = "";
description = ''
Shell script code called during global environment initialisation
after all variables and profileVariables have been set.
This code is asumed to be shell-independent, which means you should
stick to pure sh without sh word split.
'';
type = types.lines;
};
environment.shellInit = mkOption {
default = "";
description = ''
Shell script code called during shell initialisation.
This code is asumed to be shell-independent, which means you should
stick to pure sh without sh word split.
'';
type = types.lines;
};
environment.loginShellInit = mkOption {
default = "";
description = ''
Shell script code called during login shell initialisation.
This code is asumed to be shell-independent, which means you should
stick to pure sh without sh word split.
'';
type = types.lines;
};
environment.interactiveShellInit = mkOption {
default = "";
description = ''
Shell script code called during interactive shell initialisation.
This code is asumed to be shell-independent, which means you should
stick to pure sh without sh word split.
'';
type = types.lines;
};
environment.shellAliases = mkOption {
default = {};
example = { ll = "ls -l"; };
description = ''
An attribute set that maps aliases (the top level attribute names in
this option) to command strings or directly to build outputs. The
aliases are added to all users' shells.
'';
type = types.attrs; # types.attrsOf types.stringOrPath;
};
environment.binsh = mkOption {
default = "${config.system.build.binsh}/bin/sh";
example = "\${pkgs.dash}/bin/dash";
type = with pkgs.lib.types; path;
description = ''
The shell executable that is linked system-wide to
<literal>/bin/sh</literal>. Please note that NixOS assumes all
over the place that shell to be Bash, so override the default
setting only if you know exactly what you're doing.
'';
};
environment.shells = mkOption {
default = [];
example = [ "/run/current-system/sw/bin/zsh" ];
description = ''
A list of permissible login shells for user accounts.
No need to mention <literal>/bin/sh</literal>
here, it is placed into this list implicitly.
'';
type = types.listOf types.path;
};
};
config = {
system.build.binsh = pkgs.bashInteractive;
environment.etc."shells".text =
''
${concatStringsSep "\n" cfg.shells}
/bin/sh
'';
environment.etc."environment".text =
''
${concatStringsSep "\n" (
(mapAttrsToList (n: v: ''export ${n}="${concatStringsSep ":" v}"'')
# This line is a kind of a hack because of !!! note above
(fold (mergeAttrsWithFunc concat) {} ([ (mapAttrs (n: v: [ v.value ]) cfg.variables) ] ++ map cfg.profileVariables cfg.profiles))))}
${cfg.extraInit}
# The setuid wrappers override other bin directories.
export PATH="${config.security.wrapperDir}:$PATH"
# ~/bin if it exists overrides other bin directories.
export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
'';
system.activationScripts.binsh = stringAfter [ "stdio" ]
''
# Create the required /bin/sh symlink; otherwise lots of things
# (notably the system() function) won't work.
mkdir -m 0755 -p /bin
ln -sfn "${cfg.binsh}" /bin/.sh.tmp
mv /bin/.sh.tmp /bin/sh # atomically replace /bin/sh
'';
};
}