Re: Proxy settings wrt guix daemon

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Vincent Legoll <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 5:00 PM Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>> So my recommendation would be to fix [4] specifically for ‘guix-daemon’
>> by adding a ‘set-proxy’ action or something.
>
> Trying to understand what that would imply, I stumbled upon my
> ignorance of how to test attempts at implementing that.
>
> Would the following be useful :
> make + pre-inst guix system container in a git checkout / branch
> with modifications to nix/libstore/builtins.cc::builtinDownload (for
> the server part)
>
> Then how to implement the "asking the server to change its
> proxy setting" ? Where should I look ?
>
> What UI (client-side) ?
>
> `guix daemon set-proxy` or something like that ?
>
> I.e. I'm willing to try, but will need guidance...

I was proposing a custom action for the Shepherd service, just like the
mcron Shepherd service has a custom ‘schedule’ action that one can
invoke with “herd schedule mcron”.

Hope that’s clearer!

Ludo’.