Re: Living with a proxy

[Ludovic Courtès]

Konrad Hinsen <address@hidden> skribis:

> When I use my laptop at work, any use of "guix download" (and any
> package install etc.) ends with
>
>    ERROR: In procedure connect: Network is unreachable
>
> But I can download the exact same URL with wget. With that kind of
> problem I tend to blame my network's Web proxy. I have configured it
> by setting the environment variable http_proxy, which most Linux
> software uses for this purpose. Does guix perhaps need something else?

Currently Guix uses Guile’s HTTP client, which doesn’t support proxies
(the FTP client doesn’t either.)  It should support it though.

It shouldn’t be too difficult to implement, but I’m not too familiar
with all that, so I’d welcome ideas and patches.  ;-)

(In the meantime, you could use wget + ‘guix hash’, but then you’ll again
stumble upon that problem when Guix tries to download other things.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.