Re: guixsd install questions

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Divan Santana <divan@santanas.co.za> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

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>>> On tt1 I did =herd stop guix-daemon=
>>> Then exported proxy like so:
>>> export http_proxy=http://server.domain.co.za:8080/ ; export ftp_proxy=$http_proxy ; export https_proxy=$http_proxy
>>>
>>> =herd start guix-daemon=
>>
>> The ‘http_proxy’ variable needs to be set in the environment of the
>> ‘guix-daemon’ process itself, which is why this doesn’t work.  We should
>> make it easier to choose a proxy, for instance by having the daemon
>> honor client-provided proxy settings.
>
> Hmm, so what exactly do I need to do to get the http_proxy variable set
> in the guix-daemon environment? I've tried exporting on command line,
> then starting the daemon but that didn't work.

You'd have to start guix-daemon “by hand” (rather than via shepherd),
which is not great.  We should add a knob to configure this through
‘guix-configuration’ in GuixSD.

Thanks,
Ludo’.