Hi, see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/5058 for the work being done for this. In the mean time, can't you set http_proxy environment variables before running nixos-rebuild?
Wout. On Fri Nov 21 2014 at 3:26:43 PM masterdeZign <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > I am new to NixOs, but the question which interests me seems not to be > discussed yet. > My workstation has access to Internet via proxy. I have exported > environmental variables http_proxy and https_proxy, however running > nix-env -i wget fails accessing cache.nixos.org and subsequently, > tarballs.nixos.org. I suspect it's due to the fact the build users do > not share the environmental variables with my current user. > > Looking around the manual, I have found nix.proxy configuration > string. I have ended up with a /etc/nixos/configuration.nix like that: > > { config, pkgs, ... }: > > { > imports = [ <nixos/modules/installer/virtualbox-demo.nix> > <nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/misc/nix-daemon.nix> > ]; > > nix.proxy = "proxy-host.com:3128"; > > } > > However nixos-rebuild switch fails in the same way as nix-env -i: > > building Nix... > building the system configuration... > download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for > ‘http://cache.nixos.org/nix-cache-info’ after 5 seconds... > download-from-binary-cache.pl: could not download > ‘http://cache.nixos.org/nix-cache-info’ (Curl error 7) > these derivations will be built: > /nix/store/17s184bdsmnqa0vpwxmyj58i3a2n8flz-dbus-conf.drv > /nix/store/2jwpim2m9f4yhi1ds0rqqcl6h623v0b5-stdenv.drv > /nix/store/3xbm6viqjdpznhxxxqpsirlfjz0b64lw-bzip2.drv > ... > /nix/store/zw9nnsyygzz72j5b3j5zw4bknzkcbcdf-docbook-5.0.zip.drv > building path(s) `/nix/store/4fxls0b5l7c3kdd8idbzr6cp823iip37-bzip2' > downloading http://tarballs.nixos.org/stdenv-linux/i686/r24519/bzip2 > into /nix/store/4fxls0b5l7c3kdd8idbzr6cp823iip37-bzip2 > % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time > Current > Dload Upload Total Spent Left > Speed > 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:02:07 --:--:-- > > > > Thank you in advance. > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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