Re: Planning for the next release

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

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On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 04:33:24PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> Ludovic Courtès transcribed 0.6K bytes:
> > > On my side, people will and have asked for the intermediate time how/if
> > > the http_proxy of Guix works. If someone has been using it with an
> > > SOCKS5 proxy successfully, I'd would like to have this added to
> > > documentation as well. My own experiment ended up with a shot in the
> > > foot where I had to roll back because Guix was now unable to do anything
> > > at all.
> > 
> > The guix-service in GuixSD now allows you to specify an HTTP proxy quite
> > easily, for substitutes and downloads (commit 93d32da9f8).  I haven’t
> > tried it but it Should Work Fine.
> 
> That's the commit after which I've tried to make it work, reconfigured
> the system with it and failed.
> If I remember correctly, I simply added this to the config of guix, as
> suggested in the config.
> For what I really did and if you require an error output, I can provide
> this to you within the next 2 weeks.

Since that's my commit, I'm happy to debug / test it, but I don't have
an HTTP proxy or know how to set one up.

If you can share the proxy server with me, or explain how to create one,
I'll test it.

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