Re: package-update-all from command line

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:

> I would like to be able to update packages from the command line, and
> thanks to Lars, I now can do
>
> emacs -batch -funcall package-initialize -load ~/.emacs.elc -funcall 
> package-update-all
>
> Alas, this has two problems:
>
> 1. It prints "No packages to update" even though M-x list-packages RET
> reports "Packages that can be upgraded: 3; type ‘U’ to mark for upgrading".

I've now tweaked package-update-all prompting, but I'm not able to
reproduce the problem otherwise.

emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs -f package-update-all

updated a bunch of packages for me.

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