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Add command to list outdated packages. #170

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alexchandel opened this issue Mar 13, 2015 · 14 comments
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Add command to list outdated packages. #170

alexchandel opened this issue Mar 13, 2015 · 14 comments
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The ubiquitous OS X package manager Homebrew has brew outdated, which works exactly as expected.
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choco upgrade all --noop

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I'd say just because you can do it through a --noop, doesn't mean that it's necessary the best way. I'd like this too, both for the ability to do choco outdated, but also so I can also have an IListCommand in the API for quickly retrieving dated packages.

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choco upgrade all --noop isn't intuitive. An alias like choco outdated would be a good thing.

On a related note, striving for command similarity between choco and something as ancient and cantankerous as apt-get, aptitude, or yum is a recipe for bad design. There are plenty of modern package managers like Homebrew and Nix that have learned from history and have much better UIs as a result.

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Homebrew isn't exactly intuitive when you want to install a specific version. So there's that. ;)

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I don't mind adding an alias called outdated. :)

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Opening up for the community.

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:P yeah, old versions of formulae, homebrew/versions, and even installing stable and devel side-by-side could be much easier.

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would be nicer to only list the outdated instead of giving you the status of all your packages. i don't want to know whats up to date, i want to know whats not. or is this a different issue?

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That's fair, and what i started with on the limited output, but it turned out that automation tools needed to know the current state as well so they needed the information.

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from a users point of view i don't care if this checks all the packages for their state. why not just hide the unnecessary output?

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gep13 commented Mar 17, 2015

If it helps any, this was a recent addition to ChocolateyGUI:

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It will show you all the packages that you have installed locally, that have updates available on your configured sources.

Hope this helps!

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I'm interested in the command line utility, not a GUI. I suppose it makes sense that choco outdated is an alias for some fundamental command with options, but having things like choco outdated and choco list still make the command line interface much better to use for humans.

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gep13 commented Mar 18, 2015

@alexchandel said...
I'm interested in the command line utility, not a GUI.

Yes, I understand that, I was simply putting this option out there as an alternative, in the interim.

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(GH-170) Add outdated command
6b04611 
This adds the outdated command, similar to `brew outdated`.
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Merge branch 'stable'
e2c46c3 
* stable: (27 commits)
  (maint) formatting
  (GH-170) Add outdated command
  (maint) move magic string to constants
  (maint) Command specs for new options
  (maint) harden removing install files
  (GH-121) backup changed files
  (GH-121) IFilesService capture files by directory
  (GH-121) Remove package checksum
  (maint) renaming results to appropriate singular
  (GH-121) Remove empty directories / scenarios
  (maint) comment
  (maint) prefix "[NuGet]" on Nuget logger
  (GH-121) Remove unchanged files on uninstall
  (GH-121) Specs and Files Service hardening
  (GH-121) Capture file hashes
  (GH-121) specs for Md5HashProvider
  (GH-121) Add hash provider
  (GH-121) IFileSystem.read_file_bytes
  (GH-121) PkgInfoService files service interaction
  (GH-121) Add files service
  ...
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This was added in 6b04611 and will be released in 0.9.9.6. Thanks!

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