On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 12:18:41AM +0100, Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote: > Looking more carefully at the errors, I notice this part: > > actual-err> cpack-cfg> set(DPKG_EXECUTABLE "/usr/bin/dpkg") > actual-err> cpack-cfg> set(READELF_EXECUTABLE > "/gnu/store/pqai4n95zn5wdw430gslb00sb967jdg8-binutils-2.41/bin/readelf") > > So for some reason building cmake-bootstrap in guix in Debian picks up > Debian's /usr/bin/dpkg, doesn't it?! > > I suppose that Guix's build servers aren't running Debian, so it won't > find any /usr/bin/dpkg.
It would be really surprising if '/usr/bin/dpkg' could be found or accessed from within the package build environment, unless the build isolation has been disabled. Are you able to confirm if that is what's happening?