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Re: upgrading packages via script


From: Bastian Beischer
Subject: Re: upgrading packages via script
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:21:36 +0200

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

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