Packmon

Packmon (Package Monitoring) is a cli tool to monitor aging python packages in order to see if some become outdated.

Philosophy

As a simple monitoring tool, packmon is pure-python in order to simplify its use.

Usage

1. Install packmon globally on your system
2. Use it to detect obsolescence and vulnerabilities in any of your project (virtual environment or not)

Example

Local installation for now:

pip install packmon

Then use it:

packmon myproject/requirements.txt

or

pip freeze |packmon

event through pipes:

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AFPy/Potodo/master/requirements.txt |packmon

Result :

Options

Cache management

Those options help you managing packages informations from packmon's cache. Cache file is stored into HOME_USER/.packmon/packmon.json.

clear-cache

Empty cache file before any update.

update-cache

Forces updating of each package from cache.

no-cache

Does not use cache when using packmon. With this option set, each package will call pypi to retrieve its informations. Cache won't be modified.

no-update

Does not try to refresh a package information, even if it's too old.

Output management

quiet

With this option set, packmon will write nothing on the standard output (errors will still be displayed using error output though).

only-problems

This option will limit the results only to problematic packages.

CI compatibility

ci

With this option set, packmon will return a value corresponding to the number of packages outdated (max 127).