From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proxy documentation is not clear
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:32:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170221033240.GA19206@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170219170623.sdtm536s7joncoqf@wasp>
On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 05:06:23PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> Substitutes are downloaded over HTTP or HTTPS. The http_proxy
> environment variable can be set in the environment of guix-daemon and
> is honored for downloads of substitutes. Note that the value of
> http_proxy in the environment where guix build, guix package, and
> other client commands are run has absolutely no effect.
>
> None of these pages provides any example or further explanation on how
> this could be achieved, for example to make Guix use a socks5 proxy
> systemwide. I know how this can be achieved with iptables etc, but it
> would be better if the documentation is fixed. I have no idea how in
> this case as the documentation is not clear.
It depends on how you start the daemon. For systemd, you can set the
environment variable from the service file. I'm not sure how to pass
this variable to the daemon on GuixSD.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-21 3:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-19 17:06 Proxy documentation is not clear ng0
2017-02-21 3:32 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2017-02-21 9:43 ` ng0
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