docs: preserve legacy manual links

Generate XHTML-safe redirect shims that route old single-page manual anchors to their mdBook pages.
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Austin Horstman 2026-06-21 21:51:27 -05:00
parent d1ccd0721e
commit 5bf17310cf
3 changed files with 147 additions and 25 deletions

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@ -67,31 +67,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
mkdir -p out
cp -r book/* out/
makeRedirect() {
local target=$1
local destination=$2
printf '%s\n' \
'<!doctype html>' \
'<html lang="en">' \
' <head>' \
' <meta charset="utf-8">' \
" <meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; url=$destination\">" \
" <link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"$destination\">" \
' <title>Redirecting...</title>' \
' </head>' \
' <body>' \
" <p>Redirecting to <a href=\"$destination\">$destination</a>.</p>" \
' </body>' \
'</html>' \
> "out/$target"
}
makeRedirect index.xhtml index.html
makeRedirect options.html options/home-manager/index.html
makeRedirect options.xhtml options/home-manager/index.html
makeRedirect nixos-options.xhtml options/nixos/index.html
makeRedirect nix-darwin-options.xhtml options/nix-darwin/index.html
makeRedirect release-notes.xhtml release-notes/release-notes.html
python3 ${./mdbook/legacy-redirects.py} source out
runHook postBuild
'';

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@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import html
import json
import re
import sys
from pathlib import Path
ANCHOR = re.compile(r'<a id="([^"]+)"></a>')
SPECIAL_PAGES = {
Path("manual.md"): "index.html",
Path("preface.md"): "index.html",
Path("options.md"): "options/home-manager/index.html",
Path("nixos-options.md"): "options/nixos/index.html",
Path("nix-darwin-options.md"): "options/nix-darwin/index.html",
}
OPTION_PREFIXES = {
"opt-": "options/home-manager",
"nixos-opt-": "options/nixos",
"nix-darwin-opt-": "options/nix-darwin",
}
ROUTER = """
(function () {
var h = location.hash || "", a = h.slice(1), t = __DEFAULT__;
var m = __ANCHORS__, p = __PREFIXES__;
function o(a) {
for (var k in p) {
if (a.indexOf(k) !== 0) continue;
var s = a.slice(k.length).replace(/[<>]/g, "_").split("."), q = s[0];
if ((q === "programs" || q === "services") && s.length > 1) q += "/" + s[1];
return p[k] + "/" + q + ".html";
}
return null;
}
if (a) t = Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(m, a) ? m[a] : o(a) || t;
if (t === null) return;
var n = t + (location.search || "") + h;
var c = location.pathname.split("/").pop() + location.search + h;
if (n !== c) location.replace(n);
}());
""".strip()
def page_for(source, path):
relative = path.relative_to(source)
return SPECIAL_PAGES.get(relative, relative.with_suffix(".html").as_posix())
def anchors_for(source, roots):
anchors = {}
for root in roots:
files = [root] if root.is_file() else sorted(root.rglob("*.md"))
for path in files:
page = page_for(source, path)
for anchor in ANCHOR.findall(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")):
anchors.setdefault(anchor, page)
return anchors
def script(default, anchors):
js = (
ROUTER.replace("__DEFAULT__", json.dumps(default))
.replace(
"__ANCHORS__", json.dumps(anchors, sort_keys=True, separators=(",", ":"))
)
.replace("__PREFIXES__", json.dumps(OPTION_PREFIXES, separators=(",", ":")))
)
return "\n".join(
[
" <script>",
" //<![CDATA[",
*[f" {line}" for line in js.splitlines()],
" //]]>",
" </script>",
]
)
def write_redirect(output, name, destination, anchors=None):
escaped = html.escape(destination, quote=True)
(output / name).write_text(
f"""<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
{script(destination, anchors or {})}
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url={escaped}" />
<link rel="canonical" href="{escaped}" />
<title>Redirecting...</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Redirecting to <a href="{escaped}">{escaped}</a>.</p>
</body>
</html>
""",
encoding="utf-8",
)
def inject_root_router(output, anchors):
index = output / "index.html"
text = index.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
index.write_text(text.replace("<head>", f"<head>\n{script(None, anchors)}", 1))
def main():
source, output = map(Path, sys.argv[1:])
manual_roots = [
path
for path in source.iterdir()
if path.name != "options" and (path.is_dir() or path.suffix == ".md")
]
manual_anchors = anchors_for(source, manual_roots)
release_anchors = anchors_for(source, [source / "release-notes"])
inject_root_router(output, manual_anchors)
for name, destination, anchors in [
("index.xhtml", "index.html", manual_anchors),
("options.html", "options/home-manager/index.html", {}),
("options.xhtml", "options/home-manager/index.html", {}),
("nixos-options.xhtml", "options/nixos/index.html", {}),
("nix-darwin-options.xhtml", "options/nix-darwin/index.html", {}),
("release-notes.xhtml", "release-notes/release-notes.html", release_anchors),
]:
write_redirect(output, name, destination, anchors)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()

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@ -16,6 +16,20 @@
assertFileExists home-path/share/doc/home-manager/nixos-options.xhtml
assertFileExists home-path/share/doc/home-manager/nix-darwin-options.xhtml
assertFileExists home-path/share/doc/home-manager/release-notes.xhtml
assertFileContains home-path/share/doc/home-manager/index.xhtml \
'<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">'
assertFileContains home-path/share/doc/home-manager/index.xhtml \
'<meta charset="utf-8" />'
assertFileContains home-path/share/doc/home-manager/index.xhtml \
'"ch-contributing":"contributing.html"'
assertFileContains home-path/share/doc/home-manager/index.xhtml \
'"sec-news":"contributing/news.html"'
assertFileContains home-path/share/doc/home-manager/index.xhtml \
'location.replace(n);'
assertFileContains home-path/share/doc/home-manager/options.xhtml \
'"opt-":"options/home-manager"'
assertFileContains home-path/share/doc/home-manager/index.html \
'"sec-news":"contributing/news.html"'
assertFileExists home-path/share/man/man1/home-manager.1
assertFileExists home-path/share/man/man5/home-configuration.nix.5
'';