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Re: Planning for the next release
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: Planning for the next release |
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Tue, 04 Apr 2017 12:39:48 +0200 |
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ng0 <address@hidden> 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.
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Ricardo
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Re: Planning for the next release, Leo Famulari, 2017/04/02
Re: Planning for the next release, Ludovic Courtès, 2017/04/21