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nixos/apropos: init #76841

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Fixes #14472

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  • Tested using sandboxing (nix.useSandbox on NixOS, or option sandbox in nix.conf on non-NixOS linux)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • other Linux distributions
  • Tested via one or more NixOS test(s) if existing and applicable for the change (look inside nixos/tests)
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Determined the impact on package closure size (by running nix path-info -S before and after)
  • Ensured that relevant documentation is up to date
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.
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systemd.tmpfiles.rules = [ "d /var/cache/man 0755 root root -" ];

system.activationScripts.apropos = ''
${pkgs.mandb}/bin/mandb
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Can we do this at build-time instead? Would be much cleaner. This here will run on every boot and rebuild.

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@matthewbauer are you still interested in this PR? If not I'm ok taking over this task.

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@rnhmjoj can you please have a look? It would be great to fix this old issue. Thank you.

{

options.documentation.apropos = {
enable = mkOption {
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I think this whole config can be moved to documentation.nix under the mkIf cfg.man.enable without an additional .enable option if it can be done at build time.

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Closing in favor of #86489

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Make NixOS module to update apropos database
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