Hello, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes:
> From: ng0 <contact....@cryptolab.net> > Subject: Re: Proxy documentation is not clear > To: Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> > Cc: help-g...@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 09:43:35 +0000 (8 hours, 8 minutes, 14 seconds ago) > > 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. > > ---------- > Not sure if this is an appropriate answer, but to customize the guix daemon service field like described in the example here: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Using-the-Configuration-System.html#System-Services you would have to patch "gnu/services/base.scm" by adding a field to the 'guix-configuration' that would be then be passed to the '#:environment-variables' option of 'make-forkexec-constructor' in 'guix-shepherd-service'. HTH. -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37
