This is a small package to help keep Spacemacs packages up to date, by updating
Spacemacs packages (using the configuration-layer/update-packages function) if
the mtime of a particular file exceeds some age.
The intended usage is to put this in your dotspacemacs/user-config function,
and the check will happen when you start Emacs. I prefer this to a timer because
checking for and applying updates right when I start Emacs is not a big deal to
me, but having Emacs prompt me to restart to apply updates while I'm in the
middle of working on code is annoying.
Add some code like this to the dotspacemacs/user-config function in your
~/.spacemacs file:
;; Load the package and invoke the update check.
(use-package spacemacs-auto-package-update
:load-path "~/path/to/spacemacs-auto-package-update"
:config (spacemacs-auto-package-update/check-and-apply-updates))You can also customize spacemacs-auto-package-update/age with the number of
seconds that should pass before checking for updates (default value is 604800,
the number of seconds in one week) and spacemacs-auto-package-update/file for
the path of the file to use to track when the last update occurred (default
value is ~/.emacs.d/private/last-package-update).