Hi Steve, The package definition that I shared (and those like it that are exhibiting the same error with the install-license-files phase) have not been changed in quite some time.
They built correctly with `guix build` on my personal Guix System machine, on my team members' Ubuntu machines, and on all of our Ubuntu VMs. These have been building correctly and running deployed within Guix System containers on top of Ubuntu for several months now. Then I recently recreated some of my Ubuntu VMs with larger hard drives and ran the same Guix installation code that I had used previously on them. However, this time the install script that is downloaded from https://guix.gnu.org/install.sh installed the new 1.5.0 version of Guix onto my VMs. After this, I attempted to build and install these packages on the VMs and they crashed in the install-license-files phase with the stacktrace that I shared in my last email. I should note that they build fine on my Guix System machine, and I have tried `guix build --check ...` as per your recommendation to force rebuilds without any errors. I am running the latest Guix master branch commit as of yesterday. I should note that even when I use `guix time-machine -C channels.scm -- build --check ...` on my Guix System machine, I get no errors, despite the channels.scm file using a Guix commit that is several months old. The problem appears to only be happening on my new Ubuntu machines. When I tried to use `guix time-machine -C channels.scm -- build --check ...` on those machines (with the same channels.scm as I am using on my Guix System machine), I get the install-license-files phase error. This makes it seem like something may have changed in the match code in install-license-files somehow, but I still don't understand how it could manifest itself on one machine (Guix on Ubuntu) but not on another (Guix System), when they are both using the same channels.scm file. Any ideas are welcome. Thanks, Gary Steve George <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Gary, > > Have you tried building an existing package in the archive (e.g using > --check), so that would remove the chance that it's something with the > package definition? > > If it's a general problem with 'guix build' do you also have a problem with > 'guix shell'. The main difference in the install now is that it's done > without root permissions, I had some problems getting this right on an > existing install. > > Steve / Futurile > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 09:10:02PM +0700, Gary Johnson wrote: >> Hi Guix, >> >> I recently installed Guix onto a new Ubuntu VM using the standard >> guix-install.sh script. Now on this VM, I cannot successfully build packages >> that do build correctly on my own machine. >> >> While one might expect that I am just running different versions of Guix on >> each machine, this shouldn't be the case because I am using the same >> channels.scm file on both computers via the `guix time-machine` command. >> I've never seen different behavior between two machines running the same >> Guix version and building the same packages before, so I am utterly >> mystified. >> >> Here's the error I get on my new VM when building a package: >> >> =========================================================================== >> >> starting phase `install-license-files' >> error: in phase 'install-license-files': uncaught exception: >> match-error "match" "no matching pattern" #f >> phase `install-license-files' failed after 0.0 seconds >> Backtrace: >> 9 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/mbyp0pi1lbcqzw22mv0bjpabqis…") >> In guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm: >> 972:2 8 (gnu-build #:source _ #:outputs _ #:inputs _ #:phases . #) >> In ice-9/boot-9.scm: >> 1752:10 7 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _) >> In srfi/srfi-1.scm: >> 634:9 6 (for-each #<procedure 71ac5e089d40 at guix/build/gnu-b…> …) >> In ice-9/boot-9.scm: >> 1752:10 5 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _) >> In guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm: >> 993:23 4 (_) >> 889:7 3 (install-license-files #:outputs _ #:license-file-regexp …) >> 881:4 2 (_) >> In ice-9/boot-9.scm: >> 1685:16 1 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _) >> 1685:16 0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _) >> >> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception: >> Throw to key `match-error' with args `("match" "no matching pattern" #f)'. >> build process 11 exited with status 256 >> >> =========================================================================== >> >> Here is one of the many offending files that are all failing for me like >> this: >> >> (define geoserver-css-plugin >> (package >> (name "geoserver-css-plugin") >> (version "2.19.6") >> (source (origin >> (method url-fetch) >> (uri (string-append >> "https://sourceforge.net/projects/geoserver/files/GeoServer/"; version >> "/extensions/geoserver-" version >> "-css-plugin.zip")) >> (sha256 (base32 >> "06h2avzqps4dv9lwpck14v4cpk511z1mh13d3w5ii1153rcqdihb")))) >> (build-system copy-build-system) >> (arguments '(#:install-plan '(("." "./" #:exclude >> ("environment-variables"))))) >> (native-inputs (list unzip)) >> (home-page >> "https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/styling/css/install.html";) >> (synopsis "GeoServer CSS Plugin") >> (description "The GeoServer CSS Plugin enables you to write layer styles >> using CSS instead of SLD.") >> (license gpl2))) >> >> In order to get them to build I have to modify their build phases like so: >> >> (define geoserver-css-plugin >> (package >> (name "geoserver-css-plugin") >> (version "2.19.6") >> (source (origin >> (method url-fetch) >> (uri (string-append >> "https://sourceforge.net/projects/geoserver/files/GeoServer/"; version >> "/extensions/geoserver-" version >> "-css-plugin.zip")) >> (sha256 (base32 >> "06h2avzqps4dv9lwpck14v4cpk511z1mh13d3w5ii1153rcqdihb")))) >> (build-system copy-build-system) >> (arguments '(#:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases >> (delete 'install-license-files)) >> #:install-plan '(("." "./" #:exclude >> ("environment-variables"))))) >> (native-inputs (list unzip)) >> (home-page >> "https://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/styling/css/install.html";) >> (synopsis "GeoServer CSS Plugin") >> (description "The GeoServer CSS Plugin enables you to write layer styles >> using CSS instead of SLD.") >> (license gpl2))) >> >> Does anybody have any idea what could be going on here? >> >> Thanks, >> Gary >> >> -- >> GPG Key ID: C4FBEDBD >> Use `gpg --search-keys [email protected]' to find me >> Protect yourself from surveillance: https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org >> ======================================================================= >> () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail >> /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments >> >> Why is HTML email a security nightmare? 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