unixorn / autoupdate-zgen

Autoupdate plugin for zgen

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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.

Computation error in update interval

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

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

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. (:

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.