This is appears to be a fairly common mistake for beginners who want
to build larger things from the system configurations, such as NixOps
networks, etc. Further explanation seems appropriate.
This makes the following work
disabledModules = [ foo.nixosModules.bar ];
even if `bar` is not a path, but rather a module such as
{ key = "/path/to/foo#nixosModules.bar"; config = ...; }
By supporting this, the user will often be able to use the same syntax
for both importing and disabling a module. This is becoming more relevant
because flakes promote the use of attributes to reference modules. Not
all of these modules in flake attributes will be identifiable, but with
the help of a framework such as flake-parts, these attributes can be
guaranteed to be identifiable (by outPath + attribute path).
Add trace items that provide context for a failed definition that
can not be caught within the Nix language.
This also adds a test for the `tryEval` behavior of `showDefs`.
The motivation is to have a single identifier for that. Useful for the
next commit where I'll try to escape option-parts correctly (options can
be any kind of strings, but unless these are Nix identifiers, they must
be quoted).
Since `<function body>` (or `<name>`/`*`) are special identifiers in
error messages and the manual, we need a unique way to mark an option
part as function call because these are not to be quoted.
This is particularly useful for disabling modules defined in a flake.
Example:
disabledModules = [ "${flake}/modules/mymodule.nix" ];
Previously, absolute string paths were internally prepended with `modulesPath`,
which caused the module filtering to fail.
`m` must always be an attrset at this point. It is basically always
evaluated. This will make it throw when any of the attrs is accessed,
rather than just `config`. We assume that this will improve the error
message in more scenarios.
... where a bare submodule is an option that has a type like
`submoduleWith x`, as opposed to `attrsOf (submoduleWith x)`.
This makes migration unnecessary when introducing a freeform type
in an existing option tree.
Closes#146882
This ensures that the module file locations are propagated to the
freeform type, which makes it so that submodules in freeform types now
have their declaration location shown in the manual, fixing
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/132085.
In addition, this also newly allows freeformTypes to be declared
multiple times and all declarations being merged together according to
normal option merging.
This also removes some awkwardness regarding the type of `freeformType`
This type correctly merges multiple option types together while also
annotating them with file information. In a future commit this will be
used for `_module.freeformType`
Makes any programming errors more likely to show up early.
Non-obvious changes because of this:
- Ignore the `evalConfig` result in `reportFailure`; we're not checking
it at that point.
- Pre-increment `$fail` and `$pass` to make sure the arithmetic doesn't
result in a zero, which would result in a non-zero exit code for the
expression.
