Hi Gottfried,
I think some of your installed packages are out of date. What's the last time
you ran
guix package --upgrade?
It may be better to switch to Guix Home, which does that automatically to you.
As for Guix shell, it should be possible to use it more than once a day. It
should also not build every time, but I've seen bugs in that caching algorithm.
Are you sure it's not downloading?
Thanks for using GNU Guix!
Kind regards
Felix
On October 11, 2026 6:49:41 AM PDT, gfp <[email protected]> wrote:
>Am 11.10.26 um 15:03 schrieb Andreas Enge:
>> On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 at 10:20:53AM +0000, gfp wrote:
>>> since approx. at least half a year
>>> I can´t update one profile with musescore-3.6.2,
>>> it can´t build musescore-3.6.2.
>>> It stops at about 31 % of the build phase.
>>> In my little understanding I guess that the old version of Musescore needs
>>> other old versions of packages.
>>
>> The current version of musescore in Guix is 4.6.5. Do you really need an
>> older one? If yes, then the safest approach would be to use the
>> time-machine together with "guix shell musescore". Trying to mix an old
>> musescore recipe with newer packages from Guix (from your description it
>> sounds like what you are trying to do) will create trouble.
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>
>thanks
>
>1.
>What I understood is,
>if someone is using guix shell then he can use it only once,
>and if I need it every day,
>it would build musescore every day, which needs time.
>
>Building musescore 3.6.2 needed always 1,3 hours,
>but may be in guix shell it goes quicker.
>
>2.
>What possibilities do we have to use guix shell,
>but avoid the building it every day anew?
>
>3.
>I have never used time-machine
>and would have to learn the commands.
>
>4.
>I have got musescore 3.6.2 in a separate profile
>and used it successfully from 2022 onwards 2,5 years approx.
>But starting in 2024 it was not possible anymore to build it always.
>since then it builds less and less and now not anymore.
>I was very pleased with the old version, it worked better then the newer
>versions of musescore 4.0 until 4.4 approx. (because it was completely renewed)
>Now it would be probably on the same level as the old one
>but added new features.
>I am hesitant to learn the new version, it needs time...
>and until now I like the old version, because I now how to use it...
>
>Gottfried
>
>
>
