From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Planning for the next release Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 12:39:48 +0200 Message-ID: <87wpb0318r.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87wpb7ym78.fsf@gnu.org> <20170331135732.pkobwwkzuojil4v3@abyayala> <877f35l8gf.fsf@gnu.org> <20170331163324.a7cj3m7u2zjstogw@abyayala> <20170331230741.GC9642@jasmine> <20170401071049.htgetlhfxrylc222@abyayala> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59880) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvLtU-00034k-CL for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2017 06:41:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvLtQ-0007Bb-Ct for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2017 06:41:00 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21007) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvLtQ-0007B3-69 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2017 06:40:56 -0400 In-reply-to: <20170401071049.htgetlhfxrylc222@abyayala> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: ng0 Cc: guix-devel ng0 writes: > Leo Famulari transcribed 2.2K bytes: >> 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. […] > To put it simple, my use case is tor. I thought it would be enough to > point to the host:port like I do for socks5 settings of applications. The commit augments the environment in which guix-daemon is running such that “http_proxy” is set. AFAIK “http_proxy” only works with HTTP proxies, not with SOCKS proxies. You would have to set up an HTTP proxy that forwards to Tor’s SOCKS proxy, e.g. with privoxy. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net