brewupdate

brewupdate is a launchd agent to update homebrew formulae automatically every day at 11 AM (local time).

Brewupdate will not upgrade your installed formulae. Its sole responsibility is to fetch new formulae.

How to Install or Upgrade

Run the following command in the terminal:

curl -L https://github.com/mkalmes/brewupdate/raw/develop/brewupdate-install.sh | bash

Manual installation

To manually install brewupdate, copy the plist to ~/Library/LaunchAgents and run the command launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/net.mkalmes.brewupdate.plist to load the LaunchAgent into the launchd manager.

Here is a quick rundown:

> mkdir ~/Library/LaunchAgents
> cp net.mkalmes.brewupdate.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
> launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/net.mkalmes.brewupdate.plist

Manual upgrade

If you installed a previous version of brewupdate, unload the loaded LaunchAgent, copy the new agent to ~/Library/LaunchAgents, and load the copied LaunchAgent.

Here is a quick rundown:

> launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/net.mkalmes.brewupdate.plist
> cp net.mkalmes.brewupdate.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
> launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/net.mkalmes.brewupdate.plist

… and where do I see what's updated?

Since OS X 10.8, Apple removed the redirection of stdout and stderr to system.log.

On OS X 10.5 to 10.7, brewupdate redirects the output to /var/log/system.log and can be easily viewed with /Applications/Utilities/Console.app. Use the search filter net.mkalmes.brewupdate on "All Messages" to display the list of new and updated formulae.

License

Code is under the BSD 2-Clause license.