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Re: package management - auto check for updates?
From: |
Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
Re: package management - auto check for updates? |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:56:40 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) |
Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> writes:
> package management is finally getting pretty nice in emacs.
>
> I use:
> (package-initialize)
> (require 'felineherd)
>
> Now, every now and then, I manually check for updates.
>
> But it'd be nice if emacs could automatically inform me of updates to
> my installed pacakges.
This works, although it's possibly not the cleanest solution. It
messages the upgradeable packages and also notifies you via desktop
notifications.
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(defun th/package-check-upgrades ()
(interactive)
(cl-flet ((check ()
(package-menu-mark-upgrades)
(let ((pkgs (mapcar #'car (package-menu--find-upgrades))))
(when pkgs
(message "PACKAGE UPGRADES: %s" pkgs)
(require 'notifications)
(notifications-notify :title "Emacs Package Upgrades"
:body (format "%s" pkgs))))))
(if (get-buffer "*Packages*")
(with-current-buffer (get-buffer "*Packages*")
(package-menu-refresh)
(funcall #'check))
(save-window-excursion (list-packages))
(with-current-buffer (get-buffer "*Packages*")
(funcall #'check)))))
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If you want, you could run that from an idle timer.
Bye,
Tassilo