From 8c04471f2403f05bcbea740e3722030e2b8311ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 12:28:25 +0200
Subject: doc: Mention HTTP/HTTPS proxy in the system installation
 instructions.

* doc/guix.texi (Keyboard Layout and Networking and Partitioning):
Mention 'herd set-http-proxy guix-daemon'.
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 doc/guix.texi | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 7169e03516..891e2693f6 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -2203,6 +2203,18 @@ ping -c 3 gnu.org
 Setting up network access is almost always a requirement because the
 image does not contain all the software and tools that may be needed.
 
+@cindex proxy, during system installation
+If you need HTTP and HTTPS access to go through a proxy, run the
+following command:
+
+@example
+herd set-http-proxy guix-daemon @var{URL}
+@end example
+
+@noindent
+where @var{URL} is the proxy URL, for example
+@code{http://example.org:8118}.
+
 @cindex installing over SSH
 If you want to, you can continue the installation remotely by starting
 an SSH server:
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