Re: Luarocks: 1. Version freshness; 2. Strict.lua versus strictness?

[Hisham <h@...>]

On 4 November 2016 at 16:56, Peter Melnichenko <mpeterval@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 7:34 PM, sur-behoffski
> <sur_behoffski@grouse.com.au> wrote:
>> 1. Given that I have some set of LuaRocks installed, is there an
>>    automated way of checking whether the main repository has a newer
>>    version?  I haven't seen an easy way to do this from the
>>    intrinsic help contained within the "luarocks" command; and
>
> There is no fully automated way right now.
> However, you can run `luarocks list --outdated`
> to list outdated rocks. Using `--porcelain` for machine-friendly output
> something like this can be an automated way to upgrade all rocks:
>
> luarocks list --outdated --porcelain | \
>     while read rock cur_version new_version; do \
>         luarocks show $rock $new_version >/dev/null 2>&1 || \
>             luarocks install $rock $new_version; done
>
> (The `luarocks show` bit checks if an outdated rock on the list
> isn't already installed, which may happen if it's a dependency
> of another outdated rock that came first in the list.)

Thanks for the correction! I didn't even remember the `list
--outdated` option existed, which I implemented myself in 2014! :-)

-- Hisham