Automatically update Emacs packages.
This package provides functionality for automatically updating your Emacs packages periodically. It is specially useful for people that work in multiple machines and tend to forget to manually update packages from time to time.
The main idea is that you set a desired periodicity for the updates, and when you start Emacs, the packages will be automatically updated if enough days have passed since the last update.
This package was tested for GNU Emacs 24.4 and above. Older Emacsen are not supported yet.
You can install via MELPA, or manually by downloading auto-package-update.el and
adding the following to your init file:
(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/auto-package-update")
(require 'auto-package-update)If auto-package-update.el is installed properly, you can add the following
line to your .emacs.
(auto-package-update-maybe)This will update your installed packages at startup if there is an update pending.
You can register a check every day at a given time using auto-package-update-at-time:
(auto-package-update-at-time "03:00")will check for pending updates every three o'clock a.m..
You can also use the function auto-package-update-now to update your
packages immediatelly at any given time.
Or use auto-package-update-now-async without blocking Emacs. Since we
update packages after
(package-refresh-contents :async)we won't get all packages updated. The best practice is
M-x package-refresh-contentsfirst, then use auto-package-update-now-async. Note, it's not 100% async,
byte compiling packages can still block Emacs.
The periodicity (in days) of the update is given by the custom
variable auto-package-update-interval. The default interval is 7
days but if you want to change it, all you need is:
(setq auto-package-update-interval 14)Sometimes it is useful to skip an automatic update, e.g. when you're in a hurry or don't have a working internet connection. Use this setting to show a manual prompt before automatic updates:
(setq auto-package-update-prompt-before-update t)To delete residual old version directory when updating, set to
true variable auto-package-update-delete-old-versions. The
default value is nil. If you want to enable deleting:
(setq auto-package-update-delete-old-versions t)If you want to add functions to run before and after the package update, you can
use the auto-package-update-before-hook and auto-package-update-after-hook hooks.
For example:
(add-hook 'auto-package-update-before-hook
(lambda () (message "I will update packages now")))1.7 - Add option to prompt user before running auto-package-update-maybe
1.6.1 - Replace deprecated toggle-read-only with read-only-mode to remove byte compile warnings. Thanx to @syohex.
1.6 - Add option to remove old packages from .emacs.d/elpa when updating. Thanks to @JesusMtnez.
1.5 - Allow user to check for updates every day at specified time.
1.4 - Add before and after update hooks.
1.3 - Do not break if a package is not available in the repositories.
Show update results in a temporary buffer instead of the echo area
1.2 - Refactor for independence on package-menu functions.
1.1 - Support GNU Emacs 24.3.
1.0 - First release.
Interval in DAYS for automatic package update.
List of functions to be called before running an automatic package update.
List of functions to be called after running an automatic package update.
Name of the file in which the last update day is going to be stored.
Name of the buffer that shows updated packages and error after execution.
Name of the buffer that shows a preview of the packages to be updated.
If not nil, delete old versions directories.
Prompt user (y/n) before running auto-package-update-maybe
If not nil, show the list of packages to be updated when prompting before running auto-package-update-maybe
If not nil, the result of auto package update in buffer
auto-package-update-buffer-name will not be shown.
List of packages to exclude from automatic package update.
Update installed Emacs packages.
Update installed Emacs packages with an async manner. If FORCE is non-nil, kill the update thread anyway.
Try to update every day at the specified TIME.
Update installed Emacs packages if at least
auto-package-update-interval days have passed since the last
update.
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