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diff --git a/doc/guix-cookbook.texi b/doc/guix-cookbook.texi index 5574a60857..1342826c97 100644 --- a/doc/guix-cookbook.texi +++ b/doc/guix-cookbook.texi @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Pierre Neidhardt@* Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Oleg Pykhalov@* Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Matthew Brooks@* Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Marcin Karpezo@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Brice Waegeneire@* Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or @@ -1326,6 +1327,7 @@ reference. * Connecting to Wireguard VPN:: Connecting to a Wireguard VPN. * Customizing a Window Manager:: Handle customization of a Window manager on Guix System. * Setting up a bind mount:: Setting up a bind mount in the file-systems definition. +* Getting substitutes from Tor:: Configuring Guix daemon to get substitutes through Tor. @end menu @node Customizing the Kernel @@ -1785,6 +1787,62 @@ mount itself. )) @end lisp +@node Getting substitutes from Tor +@section Getting substitutes from Tor + +Guix daemon can use a HTTP proxy to get substitutes, here we are +configuring it to get them via Tor. + +@quotation Warning +@emph{Not all} Guix daemon's traffic will go through Tor! Only +HTTP/HTTPS will get proxied; FTP, Git protocol, SSH, etc connections +will still go through the clearnet. Again, this configuration isn't +foolproof some of your traffic won't get routed by Tor at all. Use it +at your own risk. +@end quotation + +Guix's substitute server is available as a Onion service, if you want +to use it to get your substitutes from Tor configure your system as +follow: + +@lisp +(use-modules (gnu)) +(use-service-module base networking) + +(operating-system + … + (services + (cons + (service tor-service-type + (tor-configuration + (config-file (plain-file "tor-config" + "HTTPTunnelPort 127.0.0.1:9250")))) + (modify-services %base-services + (guix-service-type + config => (guix-configuration + (inherit config) + ;; ci.guix.gnu.org's Onion service + (substitute-urls "https://bp7o7ckwlewr4slm.onion") + (http-proxy "http://localhost:9250"))))))) +@end lisp + +This will keep a tor process running that provides a HTTP CONNECT tunnel +which will be used by @command{guix-daemon}. The daemon can use other +protocols than HTTP(S) to get remote resources, request using those +protocols won't go through Tor since we are only setting a HTTP tunnel +here. Note that @code{substitutes-urls} is using HTTPS and not HTTP or +it won't work, that's a limitation of Tor's tunnel; you may want to use +@command{privoxy} instead to avoid such limitations. + +If you don't want to always get substitutes through Tor but using it just +some of the times, then skip the @code{guix-configuration}. When you +want to get a substitute from the Tor tunnel run: + +@example +sudo herd set-http-proxy guix-daemon http://localhost:9250 +guix build --substitute-urls=https://bp7o7ckwlewr4slm.onion … +@end example + @c ********************************************************************* @node Advanced package management @chapter Advanced package management |