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Expose http_proxy setting on GuixSD |
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Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:19:12 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) |
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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 09:43:35 +0000
From: ng0 <address@hidden>
To: Leo Famulari <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Proxy documentation is not clear
On 17-02-20 22:32:40, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 05:06:23PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> > Substitutes are downloaded over HTTP or HTTPS. The http_proxy
> > environment variable can be set in the environment of guix-daemon and
> > is honored for downloads of substitutes. Note that the value of
> > http_proxy in the environment where guix build, guix package, and
> > other client commands are run has absolutely no effect.
> >
> > None of these pages provides any example or further explanation on how
> > this could be achieved, for example to make Guix use a socks5 proxy
> > systemwide. I know how this can be achieved with iptables etc, but it
> > would be better if the documentation is fixed. I have no idea how in
> > this case as the documentation is not clear.
>
> It depends on how you start the daemon. For systemd, you can set the
> environment variable from the service file. I'm not sure how to pass
> this variable to the daemon on GuixSD.
Exactly, for systemd I would have been able to find it out, but I wonder
how to achieve this in GuixSD.
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Re: bug#25831: Expose http_proxy setting on GuixSD |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:26:31 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.7.2 (2016-11-26) |
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 09:15:12PM +0100, Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> > + (list (string-append "PATH=" #$lsof "/bin")
> > + #$@(if http-proxy
> > + (list (string-append "http_proxy=" http-proxy))
> > + '()))
> ^^
> missin two spaces in THEN and ELSE part ;)
I'm still learning what looks right :)
> Otherwise, LGTM.
Thanks for your advice and review!
I pushed the change as 93d32da9f8bba815b1effe6358904b5e1f9c73ff.
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