nixpkgs/modules/programs/shell.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 standard configuration for NixOS shells.
{ config, pkgs, ... }:
with pkgs.lib;
let
cfg = config.environment;
in
{
config = {
environment.shellAliases =
{ ls = "ls --color=tty";
ll = "ls -l";
l = "ls -alh";
};
environment.shellInit =
''
# Set up the per-user profile.
mkdir -m 0755 -p $NIX_USER_PROFILE_DIR
if test "$(stat --printf '%u' $NIX_USER_PROFILE_DIR)" != "$(id -u)"; then
echo "WARNING: bad ownership on $NIX_USER_PROFILE_DIR" >&2
fi
if ! test -L $HOME/.nix-profile; then
echo "creating $HOME/.nix-profile" >&2
if test "$USER" != root; then
ln -s $NIX_USER_PROFILE_DIR/profile $HOME/.nix-profile
else
# Root installs in the system-wide profile by default.
ln -s /nix/var/nix/profiles/default $HOME/.nix-profile
fi
fi
# Subscribe the root user to the NixOS channel by default.
if [ "$USER" = root -a ! -e $HOME/.nix-channels ]; then
echo "creating $HOME/.nix-channels with nixos-unstable subscription" >&2
echo "http://nixos.org/channels/nixos-unstable nixos" > $HOME/.nix-channels
fi
# Create the per-user garbage collector roots directory.
NIX_USER_GCROOTS_DIR=/nix/var/nix/gcroots/per-user/$USER
mkdir -m 0755 -p $NIX_USER_GCROOTS_DIR
if test "$(stat --printf '%u' $NIX_USER_GCROOTS_DIR)" != "$(id -u)"; then
echo "WARNING: bad ownership on $NIX_USER_GCROOTS_DIR" >&2
fi
# Set up a default Nix expression from which to install stuff.
if [ ! -e $HOME/.nix-defexpr -o -L $HOME/.nix-defexpr ]; then
echo "creating $HOME/.nix-defexpr" >&2
rm -f $HOME/.nix-defexpr
mkdir $HOME/.nix-defexpr
if [ "$USER" != root ]; then
ln -s /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels $HOME/.nix-defexpr/channels_root
fi
fi
'';
};
}