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Subject: Re: guixsd install questions
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 15:48:39 +0100
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Divan Santana <divan@santanas.co.za> skribis:

> Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

[...]

>>> On tt1 I did =3Dherd stop guix-daemon=3D
>>> Then exported proxy like so:
>>> export http_proxy=3Dhttp://server.domain.co.za:8080/ ; export ftp_proxy=
=3D$http_proxy ; export https_proxy=3D$http_proxy
>>>
>>> =3Dherd start guix-daemon=3D
>>
>> The =E2=80=98http_proxy=E2=80=99 variable needs to be set in the environ=
ment of the
>> =E2=80=98guix-daemon=E2=80=99 process itself, which is why this doesn=E2=
=80=99t 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 =E2=80=9Cby hand=E2=80=9D (rather than via =
shepherd),
which is not great.  We should add a knob to configure this through
=E2=80=98guix-configuration=E2=80=99 in GuixSD.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.