Hi Vincent, Vincent Legoll <vincent.leg...@gmail.com> skribis:
> but as mentionned in [3], this will not fly in the > case of an intermittently available proxy, as guix > system-reconfigure will depends on this working > properly to reset it back to no proxy usage. > > There is an issue about the problem [4], but it > does not looks like it is making progress. > > Could something be done from shepherd PoV, > like easily setting environment vars for specific > services, in /etc/... config files ? So that can be > easily modified with a simple text editor in case > of failure. In general, /etc on Guix System is meant to be immutable (with the exception of “state” files like /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/passwd). So my recommendation would be to fix [4] specifically for ‘guix-daemon’ by adding a ‘set-proxy’ action or something. > [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-02/msg00090.html > [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2019-07/msg00031.html > [3] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-10/msg00206.html > [4] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=25569 > > Solving this would be awesome for the imminent > release. I'd like to help as much as I can. Yup. Thanks, Ludo’.
