From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Seb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: upgrading packages via script Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 09:55:05 -0500 Organization: Church of Emacs Message-ID: <87poadcxx2.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1506437757 11531 195.159.176.226 (26 Sep 2017 14:55:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:55:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 26 16:55:50 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dwrH0-0002Ie-12 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:55:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47974 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwrH7-0000Uu-CU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:55:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44486) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwrGg-0000UZ-GB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:55:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwrGd-0006gZ-8t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=43312 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dwrGd-0006eU-1o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 10:55:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dwrGS-0000AE-FG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:55:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 73 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:wBAhqX0mgb1ZQliljD5mPoHMKRU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114421 Archived-At: 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? -- Seb