nixos: generate infodirs directly in system-path

`man 1 info` says:

   The first non-option argument, if present, is the menu entry to
   start from; it is searched for in all `dir' files along INFOPATH.
   If it is not present, info merges all `dir' files and shows the
   result. Any remaining arguments are treated as the names of menu
   items relative to the initial node visited.

Which means that this does what previous programs/info did and #8519
(on-the-fly infodir generation for Emacs) wanted to do, but for both
programs.
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Jan Malakhovski
2015-08-18 18:42:57 +00:00
parent fea03379d6
commit c6256c0e3e
3 changed files with 8 additions and 39 deletions
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{config, pkgs, ...}:
let
texinfo = pkgs.texinfoInteractive;
# Quick hack to make the `info' command work properly. `info' needs
# a "dir" file containing all the installed Info files, which we
# don't have (it would be impure to have a package installation
# update some global "dir" file). So this wrapper script around
# "info" builds a temporary "dir" file on the fly. This is a bit
# slow (on a cold cache) but not unacceptably so.
infoWrapper = pkgs.writeScriptBin "info"
''
#! ${pkgs.stdenv.shell}
dir=$(mktemp --tmpdir -d "info.dir.XXXXXX")
if test -z "$dir"; then exit 1; fi
trap 'rm -rf "$dir"' EXIT
shopt -s nullglob
for i in $(IFS=:; echo $INFOPATH); do
for j in $i/*.info; do
${texinfo}/bin/install-info --quiet $j $dir/dir
done
done
INFOPATH=$dir:$INFOPATH ${texinfo}/bin/info "$@"
''; # */
in
{
environment.systemPackages = [ infoWrapper texinfo ];
}