How to use nix behind corporate proxy on Mac?

vroad · May 10, 2021, 8:58am

When my MacBook is behind corporate proxy, it cannot connect to binary cache.
Some commands work after setting HTTPS_PROXY environment variable, but others don’t.
While niv update worked just by temporarily setting this environment variable, downloading and installing packages from nixpkgs didn’t work.

warning: unable to download 'https://cache.nixos.org/2iwpcmn9n1qaylfsb5ic0fjzwl19qcc7.narinfo': Couldn't connect to server (7); retrying in 289 ms

I enabled daemon mode when installing nix. Should I give proxy host/user/password to the daemon as well? I don’t know how to do so.

nixinator · May 10, 2021, 9:24am

These links might help you.

https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/#sec-installer-proxy-settings

github.com/NixOS/nix

nix-daemon and per-user proxy settings

opened 05:03AM - 19 Jul 17 UTC

ivan-m

I've just installed nix to use on macOS. I have a proxy set up with appropriate… `*_proxy` environment variables in my user environment, but of course nix-daemon isn't run as my user. I could try and add the proxy variables to the generated `org.nixos.nix-daemon.plist`, but would prefer not to because if I take my laptop home and thus don't need to use the corporate proxy then I have to stop the daemon, edit the .plist file to remove those settings then re-start the daemon. As such, is there any way to have the daemon use my user's proxy settings (or lack thereof)?

github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

roaming laptop: network proxy configuration

opened 05:27AM - 21 Jul 17 UTC

closed 05:34AM - 09 Aug 18 UTC

vmandela

0.kind: question 6.topic: nixos

## Issue description Is there a way to setup nixos to automatically choose th…e right proxy based on the network it is on? I have nixos installed on my laptop which I use - on work network which has a proxy - on home network where there is no proxy I have so far been modifying networking.proxy.default and doing nixos-rebuild switch each time I switch network. What is the right way to handle changing proxy configuration in nixos?