ng0 <contact....@cryptolab.net> 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