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bug#40145: [PATCH] gnu: Add squid.
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Marius Bakke |
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bug#40145: [PATCH] gnu: Add squid. |
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Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:25:53 +0100 |
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Vincent Legoll <address@hidden> writes:
> The attached patch adds squid caching proxy so that we can all start
> saving precious network bandwidth.
Nice, about time! :-)
> I lightly tested it with the attached squid config file, in foreground
> mode, like the following:
>
> # Create temporary test space for squid
> mkdir /tmp/squid
> # Create the hashed store directories
> /gnu/store/szbiglrkvll6qdxcrg3ir0hz8zdc9h5f-squid-4.10/sbin/squid -N
> -f ./squid.conf -z
> # Run squid
> /gnu/store/szbiglrkvll6qdxcrg3ir0hz8zdc9h5f-squid-4.10/sbin/squid -N
> -f ./squid.conf
>
> # In another shell
> export http_proxy=localhost:3128
> export https_proxy=localhost:3128
> time wget google.fr
> time wget google.fr
> less /tmp/squid/access.log
> less /tmp/squid/cache.log
> ls -lah /tmp/squid/00/00
>
> There's no shepherd ready to run service &
> config definitions, as I still don't know how
> to do that.
>
> I'll try to create one, if no one beats me to
> it, but it may already be useful as-is...
Writing services may seem intimidating at first, but is actually easier
than it looks. I think you'll figure it out fairly quickly. :-)
> From 24a81038d315a4bf757eca590c53a16eac005879 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Vincent Legoll <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 11:45:11 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add squid.
>
> * gnu/packages/networking.scm (squid): New variable.
[...]
> +; #:use-module (gnu packages cppunit)
I dropped this leftover from the patch.
[...]
> + (inputs
> + `(("perl" ,perl)
> + ("openldap" ,openldap)
> + ("linux-pam" ,linux-pam)
> + ("libcap" ,libcap)
> + ("cyrus-sasl" ,cyrus-sasl)
> + ("expat" ,expat)
> + ("libxml2" ,libxml2)
> + ("openssl" ,openssl)))
> + (native-inputs
> + `(("cppunit" ,cppunit)
> + ("coreutils" ,coreutils) ; test suite needs /bin/true
coreutils is already implicitly available, so I removed this input.
> + ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
> + (synopsis "A web caching proxy supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, etc.")
I changed this to just "Web caching proxy" to please 'guix lint'.
> + (description "Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP,
> HTTPS,
> +FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching
> and
> +reusing frequently-requested web pages.")
> + (home-page "http://www.squid-cache.org/")
> + (license license:gpl2)))
The license is actually GPL2+ according to the source code headers.
Applied with these changes, thank you!
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