1# This module defines a global environment configuration and
2# a common configuration for all shells.
3
4{ config, lib, utils, pkgs, ... }:
5
6with lib;
7
8let
9
10 cfg = config.environment;
11
12 exportedEnvVars =
13 let
14 absoluteVariables =
15 mapAttrs (n: toList) cfg.variables;
16
17 suffixedVariables =
18 flip mapAttrs cfg.profileRelativeEnvVars (envVar: listSuffixes:
19 concatMap (profile: map (suffix: "${profile}${suffix}") listSuffixes) cfg.profiles
20 );
21
22 allVariables =
23 zipAttrsWith (n: concatLists) [ absoluteVariables suffixedVariables ];
24
25 exportVariables =
26 mapAttrsToList (n: v: ''export ${n}="${concatStringsSep ":" v}"'') allVariables;
27 in
28 concatStringsSep "\n" exportVariables;
29in
30
31{
32
33 options = {
34
35 environment.variables = mkOption {
36 default = {};
37 description = ''
38 A set of environment variables used in the global environment.
39 These variables will be set on shell initialisation.
40 The value of each variable can be either a string or a list of
41 strings. The latter is concatenated, interspersed with colon
42 characters.
43 '';
44 type = with types; attrsOf (either str (listOf str));
45 apply = mapAttrs (n: v: if isList v then concatStringsSep ":" v else v);
46 };
47
48 environment.profiles = mkOption {
49 default = [];
50 description = ''
51 A list of profiles used to setup the global environment.
52 '';
53 type = types.listOf types.str;
54 };
55
56 environment.profileRelativeEnvVars = mkOption {
57 type = types.attrsOf (types.listOf types.str);
58 example = { PATH = [ "/bin" ]; MANPATH = [ "/man" "/share/man" ]; };
59 description = ''
60 Attribute set of environment variable. Each attribute maps to a list
61 of relative paths. Each relative path is appended to the each profile
62 of <option>environment.profiles</option> to form the content of the
63 corresponding environment variable.
64 '';
65 };
66
67 # !!! isn't there a better way?
68 environment.extraInit = mkOption {
69 default = "";
70 description = ''
71 Shell script code called during global environment initialisation
72 after all variables and profileVariables have been set.
73 This code is asumed to be shell-independent, which means you should
74 stick to pure sh without sh word split.
75 '';
76 type = types.lines;
77 };
78
79 environment.shellInit = mkOption {
80 default = "";
81 description = ''
82 Shell script code called during shell initialisation.
83 This code is asumed to be shell-independent, which means you should
84 stick to pure sh without sh word split.
85 '';
86 type = types.lines;
87 };
88
89 environment.loginShellInit = mkOption {
90 default = "";
91 description = ''
92 Shell script code called during login shell initialisation.
93 This code is asumed to be shell-independent, which means you should
94 stick to pure sh without sh word split.
95 '';
96 type = types.lines;
97 };
98
99 environment.interactiveShellInit = mkOption {
100 default = "";
101 description = ''
102 Shell script code called during interactive shell initialisation.
103 This code is asumed to be shell-independent, which means you should
104 stick to pure sh without sh word split.
105 '';
106 type = types.lines;
107 };
108
109 environment.shellAliases = mkOption {
110 default = {};
111 example = { ll = "ls -l"; };
112 description = ''
113 An attribute set that maps aliases (the top level attribute names in
114 this option) to command strings or directly to build outputs. The
115 aliases are added to all users' shells.
116 '';
117 type = types.attrs; # types.attrsOf types.stringOrPath;
118 };
119
120 environment.binsh = mkOption {
121 default = "${config.system.build.binsh}/bin/sh";
122 defaultText = "\${config.system.build.binsh}/bin/sh";
123 example = literalExample ''
124 "''${pkgs.dash}/bin/dash"
125 '';
126 type = types.path;
127 visible = false;
128 description = ''
129 The shell executable that is linked system-wide to
130 <literal>/bin/sh</literal>. Please note that NixOS assumes all
131 over the place that shell to be Bash, so override the default
132 setting only if you know exactly what you're doing.
133 '';
134 };
135
136 environment.shells = mkOption {
137 default = [];
138 example = literalExample "[ pkgs.bashInteractive pkgs.zsh ]";
139 description = ''
140 A list of permissible login shells for user accounts.
141 No need to mention <literal>/bin/sh</literal>
142 here, it is placed into this list implicitly.
143 '';
144 type = types.listOf (types.either types.shellPackage types.path);
145 };
146
147 };
148
149 config = {
150
151 system.build.binsh = pkgs.bashInteractive;
152
153 # Set session variables in the shell as well. This is usually
154 # unnecessary, but it allows changes to session variables to take
155 # effect without restarting the session (e.g. by opening a new
156 # terminal instead of logging out of X11).
157 environment.variables = config.environment.sessionVariables;
158
159 environment.etc."shells".text =
160 ''
161 ${concatStringsSep "\n" (map utils.toShellPath cfg.shells)}
162 /bin/sh
163 '';
164
165 system.build.setEnvironment = pkgs.writeText "set-environment"
166 ''
167 ${exportedEnvVars}
168
169 ${cfg.extraInit}
170
171 # ~/bin if it exists overrides other bin directories.
172 export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
173 '';
174
175 system.activationScripts.binsh = stringAfter [ "stdio" ]
176 ''
177 # Create the required /bin/sh symlink; otherwise lots of things
178 # (notably the system() function) won't work.
179 mkdir -m 0755 -p /bin
180 ln -sfn "${cfg.binsh}" /bin/.sh.tmp
181 mv /bin/.sh.tmp /bin/sh # atomically replace /bin/sh
182 '';
183
184 };
185
186}