meta-package-manager 1.11.0

Unified API to handle several package managers.

Meta Package Manager

A CLI and a BitBar plugin to simplify software upgrades from several package managers.

Stable release:

Development:

Source: XKCD #1654.

Supported

Only macOS platform is supported.

Package manager	Individual upgrade	Full upgrade
Homebrew	✅	✅
Homebrew Cask	✅	✅
Python 2 pip	✅	✅
Python 3 pip	✅	✅
Node’s npm	✅	✅
Atom’s apm	✅	✅
Ruby’s gem	✅	✅
Mac AppStore via mas	✅	✅

If you’re bored, feel free to add support for new package manager. See the list of good candidates.

Usage

Examples of the package’s mpm CLI.

List global options and commands:

$ mpm
Usage: mpm [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  CLI for multi-package manager updates and upgrades.

Options:
  -v, --verbosity LEVEL           Either CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO or
                                  DEBUG. Defaults to INFO.
  -o, --output-format [simple|plain|json|fancy]
                                  Rendering mode of the output. Defaults to
                                  fancy.
  --version                       Show the version and exit.
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  managers  List supported package managers and their location.
  outdated  List available updates.
  sync      Sync local package info.
  update    Update all packages.

List all supported package managers and their status on current system:

$ mpm managers
╒═══════════════════╤══════╤═════════════════════╤═════════╤══════════════╤═══════════╕
│ Package manager   │ ID   │ CLI path            │ Found   │ Executable   │ Version   │
╞═══════════════════╪══════╪═════════════════════╪═════════╪══════════════╪═══════════╡
│ Atom's apm        │ apm  │ /usr/local/bin/apm  │ ✅       │ ✅            │ ✅         │
├───────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────┼───────────┤
│ Homebrew          │ brew │ /usr/local/bin/brew │ ✅       │ ✅            │ ✅  1.1.2  │
├───────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────┼───────────┤
│ Homebrew Cask     │ cask │ /usr/local/bin/brew │ ✅       │ ✅            │ ✅  1.1.2  │
├───────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────┼───────────┤
│ Ruby Gems         │ gem  │ /usr/bin/gem        │ ✅       │ ✅            │ ✅         │
├───────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────┼───────────┤
│ Mac AppStore      │ mas  │ /usr/local/bin/mas  │ ✅       │ ✅            │ ✅  1.3.1  │
├───────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────┼───────────┤
│ Node's npm        │ npm  │ /usr/local/bin/npm  │ ✅       │ ✅            │ ✅         │
├───────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────┼───────────┤
│ Python 2's Pip    │ pip2 │ /usr/local/bin/pip2 │ ✅       │ ✅            │ ✅         │
├───────────────────┼──────┼─────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────┼───────────┤
│ Python 3's Pip    │ pip3 │ /usr/local/bin/pip3 │ ✅       │ ✅            │ ✅         │
╘═══════════════════╧══════╧═════════════════════╧═════════╧══════════════╧═══════════╛

BitBar plugin

A copy of the latest stable version of the Meta Package Manager BitBar plugin is always available on BitBar website and plugin repository.

History

The package_manager.py script started its life in my ‘dotfile’ repository, as a rewrite from Bash to Python of the ‘brew-updates.sh’ script.

I then merged both Homebrew and Cask upgrade in the same single script as both were competing with each other when run concurrently.

I finally proposed the script for inclusion in the official BitBar plugin repository. It lived there for a couple of weeks and saw a huge amount of contributions by the community.

With its complexity increasing, it was decided to move the plugin to its own repository. For details, see the migration script.

Current status

Active development of the script is continuing here, in the exact same conditions as we were before moving the repository, like nothing happened.

Each time we reach a releaseable script, we simply tag it and push a copy to the BitBar plugin repository. Plain and simple.

At the same time we maintain a Python library on the side. The library is going to handle all idiosyncracies of supported package managers under a unified API.

Once the library is good enough, we’ll evaluate rebasing the original plugin on it, and lay out a plan for a painless transition, from the standalone script to a bare BitBar-plugin depending on the library alone.

In the mean time we have to temporarily manage duplicate code. But at least the whole project is kept in one centralized place, trying to tackle the same issues.

Contributors

• Kevin Deldycke

• Brian Hartvigsen

License

This software is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+).

Changelog

1.11.0 (2016-11-30)

• Allow rendering of output data into json.

• Sort list of outdated packages by lower-cased package IDs.

• Bump minimal requirement of brew to 1.0.0 and cask to 1.1.0.

• Fix fetching of outdated cask packages.

• Fix update of cask packages.

1.10.0 (2016-10-04)

• Add optionnal version property on package manager definitions.

• Allow each package manager to set requirement on its own version.

• Let mas report its own version.

• Bump minimal requirement of mas to 1.3.1.

• Fetch currently installed version from mas. Closes #4.

• Fix parsing of mas package versions after the 1.3.1 release.

• Cache lazy properties to speed metadata computation.

• Shows detailed state of package managers in CLI.

1.9.0 (2016-09-23)

• Fix bumpversion configuration to target CHANGES.rst instead of README.rst.

• Render list of detected managers in a table.

• Use conda in Travis tests to install specific versions of Python across the range of macOS workers.

• Drop support for PyPy while we search a way to install it on macOS with Travis.

• Let mpm auto-detect package manager definitions.

• Show package manager IDs in mpm managers CLI output.

• Rename package_manager.7h.py BitBar plugin to meta_package_manager.7h.py.

• Give each package manager its own dedicated short string ID.

• Keep a cache of instanciated package manager.

• Add unittests around package manager definitions.

• Do not display location of inactive managers, even if hard-coded.

• Split-up CLI-producing methods and CLI running methods in PackageManager base class.

• Add a new update CLI sub-command.

• Add a new sync CLI sub-command.

• Rename managers’ active property to available.

• Move all package manager definitions in a dedicated folder.

• Add simple CLI unittests. Closes #2.

• Implement outdated CLI sub-command.

• Allow selection of table rendering.

• Fix parsing of unversioned cask packages. Closes #6.

1.8.0 (2016-08-22)

• Move the plugin to its own repository.

• Rename package-manager project to meta-package-manager.

• Add a README.rst file.

• License under GPLv2+.

• Add .gitignore config.

• Add Python package skeleton. Closes #1.

• Split CHANGES.rst out of README.rst.

• Add Travis CI configuration.

• Use semver-like 3-components version number.

• Copy all BitBar plugin code to Python module.

• Give each supported package manager its own module file.

• Add minimal mpm meta CLI to list supported package managers.

• Add default bumpversion, isort, nosetests, coverage, pep8 and pylint default configuration.

1.7.0 (2016-08-16)

• Fix issues with $PATH not having Homebrew/Macports.

• New workaround for full pip upgrade command.

• Workaround for Homebrew Cask full upgrade command.

• Grammar fix when 0 packages need updated.

1.6.0 (2016-08-10)

• Work around the lacks of full pip upgrade command.

• Fix UnicodeDecodeError on parsing CLI output.

1.5.0 (2016-07-25)

• Add support for mas.

• Don’t show all stderr as err (check return code for error state).

1.4.0 (2016-07-10)

• Don’t attempt to parse empty lines.

• Check for linked npm packages.

• Support system or Homebrew Ruby Gems (with proper sudo setup).

1.3.0 (2016-07-09)

• Add changelog.

• Add reference to package manager’s issues.

• Force Cask update before evaluating available packages.

• Add sample of command output as version parsing can be tricky.

1.2.0 (2016-07-08)

• Add support for both pip2 and pip3, Node’s npm, Atom’s apm, Ruby’s gem.

• Fixup brew cask checking.

• Don’t die on errors.

1.1.0 (2016-07-07)

• Add support for Python’s pip.

1.0.0 (2016-07-05)

• Initial public release.

• Add support for Homebrew and Cask.