brew cask upgrade

[voxsim]

I recently create a script to upgrade every package in my machine installed through brew cask.

Would be interesting add this functionality to homebrew-cask? Is it already in roadmap? Would be it useful if I try to code that and make a pull request?

PS This is the script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# get the list of installed casks
casks=( $(brew cask list) )

for cask in ${casks[@]}; do
  current="$(brew cask info $cask | sed -n '1p' | sed -n 's/^.*: \(.*\)$/\1/p')"
  installed=( $(ls /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/$cask))
  if (! [[ " ${installed[@]} " == *" $current "* ]]); then
    echo "Upgrading $cask to v$current."
    (set -x; brew cask install $cask --force;)
  else
    echo "$cask v$current is up-to-date, skipping."
  fi
done

thanks in advance,
voxsim

[vitorgalvao]

This has been discussed multiple times. Many people created such scripts, and they’re all fragile. Please search for it for details, but:

• Yes, we want to add brew upgrade.
• No, we will not add your script because:
  • It is bash, and not ruby.
  • It uses list, which cannot be trusted at the moment.
  • Other lesser reasons.

[voxsim]

@vitorgalvao when I stated

Would be it useful if I try to code that and make a pull request?

I was meaning code that in ruby!

Btw thanks for the issue I had a similar problem.

[vitorgalvao]

I was meaning code that in ruby!

Then yes and no. Yes, a PR would be useful, but upgrade needs to be discussed first and other things (like finishing #13201) need to be done before we can focus on it and discuss how it will work.

[voxsim]

ok, i will follow the thread, for now thanks for your time.