topgrade VS Cork

I don't understand why more people aren't aware of this: https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade -I use it for Linux and Windows.

To upgrade all at once I use topgrade.

For what its; worth, I love me some topgrade for keeping my stuff fresh.

$ topgrade Due to a design issue with notify-send it could be that topgrade hangs when it's finished. If this is the case on your system add the --skip-notify flag to the topgrade command or set skip_notify = true in the config file. If you don't want this message to appear any longer set display_preamble = false in the config file. For more information about this issue see https://askubuntu.com/questions/110969/notify-send-ignores-timeout and https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade/issues/288. ── 17:53:16 - System update ──────────────────────────────────────────────────── keine Neuigkeiten Bitte den Sensor des Yubikey berühren :: Paketdatenbanken werden synchronisiert … core ist aktuell extra 8,3 MiB 25,9 MiB/s 00:00 [##############################################################################] 100% multilib ist aktuell arch4edu ist aktuell :: Vollständige Systemaktualisierung wird gestartet … Es gibt nichts zu tun :: Looking for AUR upgrades... :: Looking for devel upgrades... :: Pakete nicht im AUR: gnome-software-packagekit-plugin js78 libsidplay :: als veraltet markiert: authenticator gnome-defaults-list lib32-aom lib32-libdav1d python2 xone-dkms es gibt nichts zu tun Zwischenspeicher-Verzeichnis: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ :: Möchten Sie ALLE Dateien aus dem Zwischenspeicher entfernen? [j/N] Datenbank-Verzeichnis: /var/lib/pacman/ :: Möchten Sie ungenutzte Repositorien entfernen? [J/n] Ungenutzte Sync-Repositorien werden entfernt … Clone-Verzeichnis: /home/ingo/.cache/paru/clone :: Do you want to clean ALL AUR packages from cache? [j/N]: Diff-Verzeichnis: /home/ingo/.cache/paru/diff :: Alle gespeicherten Diffs entfernen? [J/n]: ── 17:53:25 - Configuration update ───────────────────────────────────────────── ── 17:53:25 - Gnome Shell extensions ─────────────────────────────────────────── () ── 17:53:25 - rustup ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── info: syncing channel updates for 'stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu' stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu unchanged - rustc 1.70.0 (90c541806 2023-05-31) info: cleaning up downloads & tmp directories info: self-update is disabled for this build of rustup info: any updates to rustup will need to be fetched with your system package manager ── 17:53:25 - pip3 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Requirement already satisfied: pip in /usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages (23.1.2) ── 17:53:26 - Node Package Manager ───────────────────────────────────────────── ── 17:53:27 - Yarn Package Manager ───────────────────────────────────────────── ── 17:53:27 - Node Package Manager ───────────────────────────────────────────── ── 17:53:27 - micro ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Checking for plugin updates Nothing to install / update ── 17:53:28 - Flatpak User Packages ──────────────────────────────────────────── Suche nach Aktualisierungen … Nichts zu tun. Nothing unused to uninstall ── 17:53:28 - Flatpak System Packages ────────────────────────────────────────── Suche nach Aktualisierungen … Nichts zu tun. Nothing unused to uninstall ── 17:53:28 - snap ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── All snaps up to date. ── 17:53:29 - Firmware upgrades ──────────────────────────────────────────────── Firmware metadata last refresh: 8 Stunden ago. Use --force to refresh again. Geräte mit keinen verfügbaren Firmware-Aktualisierungen: • SSD 860 QVO 2TB • SSD 870 EVO 4TB • ST1000LM035-1RK172 • WDS100T3XHC-00SJG0 No updatable devices ── 17:53:29 - Summary ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── System update: OK config-update: OK Gnome Shell Extensions: OK rustup: OK pip3: OK micro: OK Flatpak: OK snap: OK Firmware upgrades: OK Pacman backup configuration files found: /etc/pam.d/doas.pacsave /etc/dracut-uefi-hook.conf.pacsave

The ncurses tui is nice, maybe you can make a wrapper with ideas from topgrade and/or Wingetui

You might want to take a look at https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade

Consider adding topgrade. Yeah, I know gnome-software is supposed to be the preferred way now, but I'd still rather update my system from the command line and topgrade will update everything.

Once you have it installations, you can keep it up-to-date with https://github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrade

Note: Cork is not open source. Cork is under the Commons Clause, which bans distribution. As of commit 404943c, the README.md of Cork mistakenly refers to Cork as "open-source" [1]:

> Cork is licensed under Commons Clause.

> This means that Cork open-source and you can do whatever you want with Cork's source, like modifying it, contributing to it etc., but you can't sell or distribute Cork or modified versions of it.

even though the very FAQ for the Commons Clause asserts otherwise [2]:

> Is this “Open Source”?

> “Open source”, has a specific definition that was written years ago and is stewarded by the Open Source Initiative, which approves Open Source licenses. Applying the Commons Clause to an open source project will mean the source code is available, and meets many of the elements of the Open Source Definition, such as free access to source code, freedom to modify, and freedom to re-distribute, but not all of them. So to avoid confusion, it is best not to call Commons Clause software “open source.”

[1] https://github.com/buresdv/Cork

[2] https://commonsclause.com/

I use Cork every day. It’s an open source GUI for the Homebrew package manager. I like that it has some features that not even Homebrew itself has (like tagging packages and only showing those installed by you, filtering out the ones installed only as dependencies)

There are some apps that let you use Homebrew without touching the terminal at all, Cork has been making rounds recently as a good app for it. Cakebrew is also an option, tho I don’t think it’s as good as Cork by far (the performance is pretty bad and the app isn’t as polished and nice to use as Cork), and Cakebrew is also abandoned.

Because you mentioned Homebrew, I’d recommend everyone who doesn’t want to use it through the terminal to look into Cork, which is a very nice GUI for it. It’s still pretty new, but I’m impressed with it. It also adds some pretty nifty features that Homebrew doesn’t have (like package tagging, or clearing Homebrew folders that don’t get cleared by it)

Outdated packages not disappearing is a bug I know about, you can follow the progress on it here: https://github.com/buresdv/Cork/issues/23