Update

A simple tool for admins to keep various command line tools updated. It currently supports:

• pip
• homebrew
• apt-get
• rpi-update

For linux updates, it is geared for the Raspberry Pi's Raspbian OS.

Install

The preferred way is to use pypi.org

pip install update

You can also do:

git clone https://github.com/walchko/update.git
cd update
python setup.py install

If you plan on doing some development, instead of install you can do develop.

Usage

[kevin@Tardis ~]$ update -h
usage: A simple automation tool to update your system. [-h] [-k]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help      show this help message and exit
  -k, --kernel    update linux kernel, default is not too

The default is everything gets updated except the linux kernel.

kevin@Tardis tmp $ update
OS: macOS
Executing NOT as root
-[pip]----------
  [>] pip list --outdated
  >> Found 4 packages
  [>] pip install -U setuptools
  [>] pip install -U PySDL2
  [>] pip install -U requests-toolbelt
  [>] pip install -U rst2pdf
-[brew]----------
  [>] brew update
  [>] brew outdated
  >> Found 15 packages
  [>] brew upgrade gd
  [>] brew upgrade git
  [>] brew upgrade harfbuzz
  [>] brew upgrade imagemagick
  [>] brew upgrade iperf3
  [>] brew upgrade libtool
  [>] brew upgrade little-cms2
  [>] brew upgrade luajit
  [>] brew upgrade node
  [>] brew upgrade pandoc
  [>] brew upgrade pkg-config
  [>] brew upgrade poco
  [>] brew upgrade srcclr/srcclr/srcclr
  [>] brew upgrade webp
  [>] brew upgrade zeromq
-[npm]----------
  [>] npm outdated -g | awk 'NR>1 {print $1}'
  >> Found 1 packages
  [>] npm update -g  npm

Now generally this works, but sometimes it doesn't so look at the errors and try to fix them. For example, lxml barfs all over the place an crashes this, but if you do:

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev python-dev

And then run it, it works because when it now tries to compile lxml, it has all of the development files.

Linux

update needs to get executed with sudo to upgrade system packages. However, for pip and npm they will be upgraded using the pi user account. The assumption is all of /usr/local is owned by the user pi.

macOS

update doesn't use sudo and assumes the user has proper privileges to update all software.

Development

python setup.py develop
python setup.py sdist
twine upload dist/*

Changes