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Check for updates weekly #567

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MicahElliott opened this issue Mar 26, 2021 · 1 comment
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Check for updates weekly #567

MicahElliott opened this issue Mar 26, 2021 · 1 comment

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@MicahElliott
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Presently, the README instructs to do something like this at the end of setup:

zplug check || zplug install
zplug load

But this only checks for new additions (because it's cheap and fast) and ignores any packages that may have been updated. A similar check to the above for updates could be:

zplug check || zplug install

### NEW WEEKLY REMINDER
if [[ ! -f $TMPDIR/zplugstamp ]]; then
    print "Creating new zplug timestamp update tracking file."
    touch $TMPDIR/zplugstamp
fi
if (( ( $(date  %s) - $(date  %s -r $TMPDIR/zplugstamp) ) / 86400 > 7 )); then
    print "Detected that it's been over a week since updating your zsh plugins."
    print "Run this now to update:\nzplug update; touch $TMPDIR/zplugstamp"
fi

zplug load #--verbose

This uses a timestamped temp file to remind you ~weekly that you haven't updated in a while.

It'd be nice if zplug had a built-in way to do this for users.
@MicahElliott
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I'm not certain this is a great idea -- building it into zplug -- but I wanted to hear feedback. An alternative is to make users have a calendar reminder to check for editor plugin, OS, Zsh, etc updates. I naturally update my OSs and Emacs packages weekly but don't think to update my Zshs regularly, and I should.

Could also do this as a cron job that emails weekly if there are updates (as I've relied on from Yum in the past)

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