unixorn / autoupdate-zgen

Autoupdate plugin for zgen

autoupdate-zgen

Important - DEPRECATED

zgen is no longer getting updates. However, the zgenom fork is getting updates and new features, and is basically zgen but better.

I recommend that you switch to zgenom and use the autoupdate-zgenom plugin with it instead.

This plugin will no longer get updates.

Status

zgen doesn't include an automatic update function like oh-my-zsh does.

autoupdate-zgen sets up easy automatic updating, both of zgenom or zgen and the plugins loaded in your configuration.

Activate with zgenom load unixorn/autoupdate-zgen or zgen load unixorn/autoupdate-zgen and regenerate your init.zsh file.

Configuration

• Set ZGEN_PLUGIN_UPDATE_DAYS before calling the bundle if you don't want the default value of 7 days.
• Set ZGEN_SYSTEM_UPDATE_DAYS before calling the bundle if you don't want the default value of 7 days.

autoupdate-zgen's Issues

Use rm -f when removing lock file

Prezto is pretending to be helpful and aliases rm in to rm -i, which causes all rm actions to be interactive. This in turn causes the update process to stop and ask whether the lock file should be removed or not.

rm -f is a reasonable default anyway here, since we want to always remove the lockfile at the end of the update run.

unknown condition: -gt

I am getting this error on startup of my ZSH shell (with zsh-quickstart-kit)

expr: syntax error: missing argument after ‘-’
_zgen-check-for-updates:[:24: unknown condition: -gt

I traced it back to _zgen-check-for-updates and haven't found anything on the internet to make it work.

it only happens with zsh 5.5 and not in zsh 5.4

Computation error in update interval

Updates 7 times a day instead of every 7 days because of using / instead of * (lines 44 and 45)…

Autoupdate can get invoked as root

A while back I noticed that autoupdate-zgen tried to autoupdate zgen modules after a sudo call. If an update is successful in such a case, it will cause files to be created as root and will most likely result in permission denied errors when the user will later on invoke autoupdate.

The sane behavior would be to check that the user id is the same as the .zgen directory owner before invoking update. There are corner cases where this check isn't sane, but it should work for most cases.

Delay update / interactive update

Please, add an option to skip an update, like oh-my-zsh does. Sometimes it starts to update on a new tab in the most inconvenient moment, so a quick "Would you like Zgen to update?" may save some nerves. (: