* upgrading packages via script
@ 2017-09-26 14:55 Seb
2017-09-27 13:21 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-09-27 14:21 ` Bastian Beischer
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Seb @ 2017-09-26 14:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hello,
I'm trying to set up a script to upgrade packages using a cron job,
rather than interactively, as the latter has become a burden. I'm using
Emacs 25.2.2 from Debian testing, and something is working inherently
different in the script compared to the interactive session. At any
given time, the interactive session may display a number of packages
that can be upgraded, whereas the script fails to find any, even though
both are run with the same `package-archives' setting.
This is the script I wrote:
╭───── [ upgrade_packages.el ]
│ (setq package-archives
│ (quote
│ (("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
│ ("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/")
│ ("marmalade" . "https://marmalade-repo.org/packages/")
│ ("org" . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/"))))
│ (package-initialize)
│ (list-packages)
│ (package-menu-mark-upgrades)
│ (package-menu-execute t)
╰─────
and this is how I run it:
---<--------------------cut here---------------start------------------->---
$ emacs -q --script upgrade_packages.el
Loading 00debian-vars...
Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/20apel.el (source)...
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Setting ‘package-selected-packages’ temporarily since "emacs -q" would overwrite customizations
Waiting for refresh to finish...
No operations specified
---<--------------------cut here---------------end--------------------->---
Remove the -q option doesn't make a difference. If I do the same in an
interactive session, there are a number of packages available for
upgrade. Any idea why the script fails to work?
--
Seb
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2017-09-26 14:55 upgrading packages via script Seb
@ 2017-09-27 13:21 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-09-27 15:33 ` Seb
2017-09-27 14:21 ` Bastian Beischer
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Michael Heerdegen @ 2017-09-27 13:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Seb; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Seb <spluque@gmail.com> writes:
> ╭───── [ upgrade_packages.el ]
> │ (setq package-archives
> │ (quote
> │ (("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
> │ ("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/")
> │ ("marmalade" . "https://marmalade-repo.org/packages/")
> │ ("org" . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/"))))
> │ (package-initialize)
> │ (list-packages)
> │ (package-menu-mark-upgrades)
> │ (package-menu-execute t)
> ╰─────
My first guess would be that in nature, one has to wait until the
package manager has refreshed the view before one can select packages to
upgrade. Your script finishes before that because updating the package
list happens asynchronously.
Michael.
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2017-09-27 13:21 ` Michael Heerdegen
@ 2017-09-27 15:33 ` Seb
2017-09-27 22:39 ` Seb
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Seb @ 2017-09-27 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:21:26 +0200,
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
> Seb <spluque@gmail.com> writes:
>> ╭───── [ upgrade_packages.el ] │ (setq package-archives │ (quote │
>> (("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/") │ ("melpa"
>> . "http://melpa.org/packages/") │ ("marmalade"
>> . "https://marmalade-repo.org/packages/") │ ("org"
>> . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/")))) │ (package-initialize) │
>> (list-packages) │ (package-menu-mark-upgrades) │
>> (package-menu-execute t) ╰─────
> My first guess would be that in nature, one has to wait until the
> package manager has refreshed the view before one can select packages
> to upgrade. Your script finishes before that because updating the
> package list happens asynchronously.
That was also my first guess, but in that case shouldn't
(package-menu-execute t) fail altogether?
--
Seb
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2017-09-27 15:33 ` Seb
@ 2017-09-27 22:39 ` Seb
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Seb @ 2017-09-27 22:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 10:33:50 -0500,
Seb <spluque@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:21:26 +0200,
> Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
>> Seb <spluque@gmail.com> writes:
>>> ╭───── [ upgrade_packages.el ] │ (setq package-archives │ (quote │
>>> (("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/") │ ("melpa"
>>> . "http://melpa.org/packages/") │ ("marmalade"
>>> . "https://marmalade-repo.org/packages/") │ ("org"
>>> . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/")))) │ (package-initialize) │
>>> (list-packages) │ (package-menu-mark-upgrades) │
>>> (package-menu-execute t) ╰─────
>> My first guess would be that in nature, one has to wait until the
>> package manager has refreshed the view before one can select packages
>> to upgrade. Your script finishes before that because updating the
>> package list happens asynchronously.
> That was also my first guess, but in that case shouldn't
> (package-menu-execute t) fail altogether?
Well, I found the variable package-menu-async, which if toggled answers
my question. If set to nil in the script, then packages to upgrade are
found successfully against the latest candidates. If non-nil, as by
default, then things go wrong as shown, so answer is no.
And the working script boils down to:
╭───── [ upgrade_packages.el ]
│ (setq package-archives
│ (quote
│ (("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
│ ("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/")
│ ("marmalade" . "https://marmalade-repo.org/packages/")
│ ("org" . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/")))
│ package-menu-async nil)
│ (list-packages)
│ (package-menu-mark-upgrades)
│ (package-menu-execute t)
╰─────
--
Seb
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* Re: upgrading packages via script
2017-09-26 14:55 upgrading packages via script Seb
2017-09-27 13:21 ` Michael Heerdegen
@ 2017-09-27 14:21 ` Bastian Beischer
2017-09-27 15:31 ` Sebastian P. Luque
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Bastian Beischer @ 2017-09-27 14:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Seb; +Cc: Help-Gnu-Emacs
Hi Seb,
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Seb <spluque@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to set up a script to upgrade packages using a cron job,
> rather than interactively, as the latter has become a burden. I'm using
> Emacs 25.2.2 from Debian testing, and something is working inherently
> different in the script compared to the interactive session. At any
> given time, the interactive session may display a number of packages
> that can be upgraded, whereas the script fails to find any, even though
> both are run with the same `package-archives' setting.
>
> This is the script I wrote:
>
> ╭───── [ upgrade_packages.el ]
> │ (setq package-archives
> │ (quote
> │ (("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
> │ ("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/")
> │ ("marmalade" . "https://marmalade-repo.org/packages/")
> │ ("org" . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/"))))
> │ (package-initialize)
> │ (list-packages)
> │ (package-menu-mark-upgrades)
> │ (package-menu-execute t)
> ╰─────
>
> and this is how I run it:
>
> ---<--------------------cut here---------------start------------------->---
> $ emacs -q --script upgrade_packages.el
> Loading 00debian-vars...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/20apel.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50asymptote.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50auctex.el (source)...
> Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/auctex.el (source)...
> Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/preview-latex.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50autoconf.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50bbdb3.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50cmake-data.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50devscripts-el.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el (source)...
> Loading debian-ispell...
> Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-default.el (source)...
> Loading /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionary-el.el (source)...
> Loading dictionary-init...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dpkg-dev-el.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50el-get.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50emacs-goodies-el.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50festival.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50flim.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50gnugo.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50mailutils-mh.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50mh-e.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50mu4e.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50psvn.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50pylint.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50python-docutils.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50texlive-lang-english.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50w3m-el-snapshot.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/51debian-el.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/51semi.el (source)...
> Loading /etc/emacs/site-start.d/65wl.el (source)...
> Setting ‘package-selected-packages’ temporarily since "emacs -q" would overwrite customizations
> Waiting for refresh to finish...
> No operations specified
> ---<--------------------cut here---------------end--------------------->---
>
> Remove the -q option doesn't make a difference. If I do the same in an
> interactive session, there are a number of packages available for
> upgrade. Any idea why the script fails to work?
You may want to check out the package 'package-utils' which brings the
'package-utils-upgrade-all' function. I'm running this batch script to
do the job:
#!/bin/bash
emacs -q -u $USER -batch -f package-utils-upgrade-all
Cheers
Bastian
>
>
> --
> Seb
>
>
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2017-09-27 14:21 ` Bastian Beischer
@ 2017-09-27 15:31 ` Sebastian P. Luque
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Sebastian P. Luque @ 2017-09-27 15:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:21:36 +0200,
Bastian Beischer <bastian.beischer@rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
[...]
> You may want to check out the package 'package-utils' which brings the
> 'package-utils-upgrade-all' function. I'm running this batch script to
> do the job:
> #!/bin/bash emacs -q -u $USER -batch -f package-utils-upgrade-all
> Cheers Bastian
Thanks, I'll give that a try, but I wonder what kind of magic this
package does that a script can't do. Doesn't "-u $USER" defeat "-q"?
--
Seb
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