This commit deprecates profile management from the activation script.
The profile management is instead the responsibility of the driving
software, for example, the `home-manager` tool in the case of
standalone installs.
The legacy behavior is still available for backwards compatibility but
may be removed in the future.
The new behavior resolves (or moves us closer to resolving) a number
of long standing open issues:
- `home-manager switch --rollback`, which performs a rollback to the
previous Home Manager generation before activating. While it was
previously possible to accomplish this by activating an old
generation, it did always create a new profile generation.
This option has been implemented as part of this commit.
- `home-manager switch --test`, which activates the configuration but
does not create a new profile generation.
This option has _not_ been implemented here since it relies on the
current configuration being activated on login, which we do not
currently do.
- When using the "Home Manager as a NixOS module" installation method
we previously created an odd `home-manager` per-user "shadow
profile" for the user. This is no longer necessary.
This has been implemented as part of this commit.
Fixes#3450
After migrating to nixos-render-docs, the extension move to .xtml.
Unfortunately, this broke links to the previous Options Page.
This patch provides a basic redirect support to the new Options Page.
This enables a module system feature documented here:
https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/index.html#module-system-lib-evalModules-param-class
For example, it allows a mistake to be caught, which is loading a
NixOS module into home-manager. This only works when the offending
module declares what it's for with a `_class` attribute.
It is not expected that users declare the `_type`, because the payoff
is small. It is only expected to be set by generic code, such as
functions or libraries that help with the "publishing" of modules
(e.g. flake-parts, flake-utils).
The class feature has been available in the module system since
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/197547, merged May 6, 2023. It
has been part of all releases since 23.05-beta. The last NixOS release
that did _not_ support it has been end-of-life for close to a year
now.
Example:
(lib.homeManagerConfiguration {
pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux;
modules = [{ _class = "nixos"; imports = [ ./foo.nix ]; }];
}).activation-script
Corresponding error:
error: The module <unknown-file> was imported into homeManager instead of nixos.
(`<unknown-file>` can be improved by also setting `_file`, if known; a
much older feature)
PR #5339
The beets package no longer has the "enableCheck" option so this was
confusing. Also the word override was used to mean two different
things so I modified the FAQ to use the word "change" and linked to
documentation regarding package overrides.
Turns out pulling nmt and nmd from Nixpkgs causes an IFD, even when
the packages are fixed-output derivations.
Thus, since Sourcehut is up and well, we can revert to simply fetching
nmd and nmt directly.
See discussion in <https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/pull/4884>.
This adds a Boolean option `uninstall`. When enabled this option will
reset side-effecting configurations to their "empty" state. The intent
is that this will cause the activation script to remove all managed
files and packages.
Doing it this way should hopefully be more robust than the previous
solution. It also allows a somewhat more convenient uninstall process
when using Flakes; put `uninstall = true` in your existing
configuration and then do a switch.
Also add simple uninstall test in CI test job.
The release notes used to be an appendix in the manual. After
converting to markdown that appendix got lost. This commit
reintroduces the release notes into the manual.
The example is missing a `;` which causes this error when you attempt
a `darwin-rebuild switch`.
```
error: syntax error, unexpected '=', expecting ';'
at /Users/968713/.nixpkgs/darwin-configuration.nix:17:30:
16| }
17| home-manager.users.eve = { pkgs, ... }: {
| ^
18| home.packages = [
```
The `nixos-render-docs` tool outputs XHTML formatted content. In
order to convince browsers like `firefox` to treat the data as XHTML
the extension must be `.xhtml` and not `.html`.
Using the XHTML-formatted content as HTML is mainly an issue with
self-closing `<a />` tags.
`document-highlighter` now outputs a `<code>` block inside the
pre-formatted `<pre>` tag. This changes the required CSS for
rendering code snippets. Moreover, this commit uses the highlightjs
as provided by the `document-highlighter` package instead of the
version packaged in `nmd`.
The `man home-configuration.nix` is configured to left
align the text similar to `man configuration.nix`. This
commit updates the `man home-manager` page to be consitent
with the two manpages mentioned above.
This commit removes the `home-manager-render-docs` package in favor
of upstream `nixos-render-docs` where the manpage generator has been
updated to take a `--header` and a `--footer` flag specifying static
content around the content derived from the options.json file.
This commit extracts the htmlOpenTool from `nmd` into a module
in the home-manager docs directory. This is done to provide feature
parity with the documentation generated using the docbook .xml files.
The `optionsDocBook` function is deprecated in nixpkgs since
nixos-23.11. This commit updates the manual and manpages to
use commonmark formatted documentation instead of the deprecated
docbook format.
