Subject: bug#25831: Expose http_proxy setting on GuixSD

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:26:54 -0500

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 07:17:03PM +0100, Mathieu Lirzin wrote:
> Not sure if this is an appropriate answer, but to customize the guix daemon
> service field like described in the example here:
> 
>   https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Using-the-Configuration-System.html#System-Services
> 
> you would have to patch "gnu/services/base.scm" by adding a field to the
> 'guix-configuration' that would be then be passed to the
> '#:environment-variables' option of 'make-forkexec-constructor' in
> 'guix-shepherd-service'.

Thank you, that helped a lot!

What do the two of you think of the attached patch?

Using the attached OS declaration, I verified that the http_proxy
environment variable is set in the guix-daemon's environment, but I
don't have a proxy to test with.
>From 1e6e95ea5b43231d09279b9e54f5c581462486f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 14:57:02 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] services: guix: Support using an HTTP proxy.

* gnu/services/base.scm (<guix-configuration>)[http-proxy]: New field.
(guix-shepherd-service): Use 'http-proxy' in #:environment-variables.
* doc/guix.texi ...
---
 doc/guix.texi         |  4 ++++
 gnu/services/base.scm | 13 +++++++++----
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 6cdb5e592..19a31c659 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -8611,6 +8611,10 @@ are written.
 @item @code{lsof} (default: @var{lsof})
 The lsof package to use.
 
+@item @code{http-proxy} (default: @code{#f})
+The HTTP proxy used for downloading fixed-output derivations and
+substitutes.
+
 @end table
 @end deftp
 
diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gnu/services/base.scm
index 57601eab8..352a90be7 100644
--- a/gnu/services/base.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/base.scm
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016 Alex Kost <[email-masked]>
 ;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016 Mark H Weaver <[email-masked]>
 ;;; Copyright © 2015 Sou Bunnbu <[email-masked]>
-;;; Copyright © 2016 Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
+;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 David Craven <[email-masked]>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
 ;;;
@@ -1114,7 +1114,9 @@ failed to register hydra.gnu.org public key: ~a~%" status))))))))
   (log-file         guix-configuration-log-file   ;string
                     (default "/var/log/guix-daemon.log"))
   (lsof             guix-configuration-lsof       ;<package>
-                    (default lsof)))
+                    (default lsof))
+  (http-proxy       guix-http-proxy               ;string
+                    (default #f)))
 
 (define %default-guix-configuration
   (guix-configuration))
@@ -1125,7 +1127,7 @@ failed to register hydra.gnu.org public key: ~a~%" status))))))))
     (($ <guix-configuration> guix build-group build-accounts
                              authorize-key? keys
                              use-substitutes? substitute-urls extra-options
-                             log-file lsof)
+                             log-file lsof http-proxy)
      (list (shepherd-service
             (documentation "Run the Guix daemon.")
             (provision '(guix-daemon))
@@ -1142,7 +1144,10 @@ failed to register hydra.gnu.org public key: ~a~%" status))))))))
 
                 ;; Add 'lsof' (for the GC) to the daemon's $PATH.
                 #:environment-variables
-                (list (string-append "PATH=" #$lsof "/bin"))
+                (list (string-append "PATH=" #$lsof "/bin")
+                      #$@(if http-proxy
+                           #~((string-append"http_proxy=" #$http-proxy))
+                           #~()))
 
                 #:log-file #$log-file))
             (stop #~(make-kill-destructor)))))))
-- 
2.11.1