Plans to add upgrade support?

[asheroto]

Hey, thanks for building this!

Do you plan to add support for upgrading packages? roco upgrade all etc?

[mwallner]

Hi,
the intention behind Rocolatey is to speed things up with Chocolatey wherever possible, - I don't aim to replace it in any way / roco should make your choco experience "more delightful" 😄
that being said, I don're really see how roco upgrade all would be benificial - how could it be quicker than choco upgrade all ?

[asheroto]

Roco was recommended to me from this issue I posted on Chocolatey.

chocolatey/choco#2413

In summary, Choco takes some time to upgrade packages because it parses the entire DOM for each package.

I know I could just write a script to only upgrade the packages roco outdated returns, but it'd be cool if when you typed roco upgrade all that it ran roco outdated and then ran choco upgrade x y z" (upgrading only the outdated packages) .

Or if there was a switch that would spit out the outdated package names only delimited by a space.. That way you could run
choco upgrade (roco outdated).

[mwallner]

I see...
let me think about this!

in the meantime, try

choco upgrade (((roco outdated -r) | % { $_.Split('|')[0]}) -join " ")

😉 🚀

[asheroto]

Aw, this is odd. Looks like it works but fails.

[AdmiringWorm]

@asheroto try removing the -join " ".

It is passing as a quoted string to Chocolatey (that is PowerShell doing that), without the join, then PowerShell should pass the package names correctly.

[asheroto]

omg it's like magic! lightning fast upgrades! thanks! literally < 60 seconds compared to 3-6 minutes.

now if only chocolatey would natively support concurrency (non- Windows installer -based applications, of course).

[mwallner]

1.5 years later, I still think adding "upgrade support" to rocolatey is not the way to go - simply upgrading everything that can be upgraded without revisiting the list of update candidates can go very wrong and that's not something I want people to do by accident.

On the other hand, I'm guessing a -l switch for the outdated command, simply outputting a list of outdated commands really could come in handy - it would enable something like @asheroto suggested:

choco upgrade (roco outdated -l)