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Subject: Re: Proxy settings wrt guix daemon
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 17:00:35 +0200
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Hi Vincent,

Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll@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 =E2=80=9Cstate=E2=80=9D files like /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/p=
asswd).

So my recommendation would be to fix [4] specifically for =E2=80=98guix-dae=
mon=E2=80=99
by adding a =E2=80=98set-proxy=E2=80=99 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=3D25569
>
> Solving this would be awesome for the imminent
> release. I'd like to help as much as I can.

Yup.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.