Re: package-update-all from command line

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> When seeing that command being introduced, I've also made my own version
>
>   (defun th/package-update-all ()
>     (interactive)
>     (package-refresh-contents)
>     (package-update-all (called-interactively-p)))
>
> because package-update-all doesn't seem to update the package database.
> I can't see the "Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org" message and the same for
> the other archives.

Yes, perhaps -update-all should also call -refresh-contents?

By the way, the following also seems to work:

./src/emacs -batch -l ~/.emacs -f package-refresh-contents -f package-update-all

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