Add a :MasonUpdateAll command

[baco]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I'd like a way to update all the packages in Mason.nvim running Neovim in headless mode.

Describe the solution you'd like

I want to be able to run: :MasonUpdateAll in Neovim's command or: $ nvim --headless +"MasonUpdateAll"

to periodically update all my packages without having to launch :Mason and then Shift+U

Describe potential alternatives you've considered

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[williamboman]

Hello! I'd recommend looking into https://github.com/WhoIsSethDaniel/mason-tool-installer.nvim for now. This will hopefully make it into core eventually!

[jay-babu]

Maybe this can be easily incorporated into core?

https://github.com/RubixDev/mason-update-all/blob/main/lua/mason-update-all/init.lua

[jay-babu]

@williamboman thoughts?

[SyedFasiuddin]

any update on this command?

[miguno]

+1

I, too, would appreciate a command like this so that I can run unattended updates as part of my script that manages all my dotfiles and local development setup.

[anjos]

This is effectively missing for unattended updates. The command MasonUpdate does not update the packages themselves, only the registry. Using mason-tool-installer includes yet another tool on the top of an increasingly large number of plugins to manage LSP things.

[dimitarvp]

Can anybody post a working setup for mason-tool-installer.nvim that does not automatically update on startup and needs a command to do it?

I have my homegrown script to update everything on my Mac and that also includes these LunarVim CLI updates:

lvim --headless "+Lazy! sync" +qa
lvim --headless "+TSUpdate" +qa

I'd be willing to add lvim --headless "+MasonToolsUpdate" +qa to it but I am a bit lazy on formulating the right configuration first. So, anybody has a working snippet that allows a headless NeoVim invocation to update all installed tools?

[NeilGirdhar]

@dimitarvp I do it all on one line: nvim --headless +Lazy! update +TSUpdate +q, and I update over sync.

[Zeioth]

You can use mason-extra-cmds. That way you just need to remove the plugin when this is eventually added.

[NeilGirdhar]

@Zeioth Doesn't seem to work for me. Do I need to call a setup function?

[dimitarvp]

@Zeioth Didn't work for me either, it says there is no such editor command after installing it with Lazy (and restarting NeoVim just in case). I checked that it's installed but still, no such editor command.

[Zeioth]

@NeilGirdhar @dimitarvp it is a plugin so you must start it. On lazy using opts = {} will do it automatically.

[dimitarvp]

@Zeioth Okay, that worked, thank you.

Now I can do this and have my LunarVim update everything I care for from the CLI without having to launch it:

lvim --headless "+Lazy! update" "+TSUpdate" "+MasonUpdateAll" "+qa"

Also let me type out the Lua config so others can just copy it. This is what I have put inside my init file in the Lazy section:

  {
    "williamboman/mason.nvim",
    dependencies = { "Zeioth/mason-extra-cmds", opts = {} },
    cmd = {
      "Mason",
      "MasonInstall",
      "MasonUninstall",
      "MasonUninstallAll",
      "MasonLog",
      "MasonUpdate",
      "MasonUpdateAll", -- provided by `Zeioth/mason-extra-cmds`
    }
  }

[dimitarvp]

I spoke too soon. While the command can now indeed be ran headless (or just ran at all), it doesn't seem to do what I want it to do. I ran it, then started NeoVim and manually checked Mason and sure enough, I have non-upgraded plugins.

@Zeioth anything extra we should do? The non-upgraded plugins are language servers and formatters by the way.

[Zeioth]

@dimitarvp I just tested it and it works fine on my end:

If I run it again you can see a couple packages were not installed

By opening Mason we can see the problem was not the :MasonUpdateAll command, but the fact mason fail to install them

Which is something you can get from time to time.

[dimitarvp]

@Zeioth I tried several times but no, it wasn't an occasional failure. BTW I am running the function in headless mode, maybe that has something to do with it? Maybe it's async and is not waiting for all updates to complete?

[Zeioth]

@dimitarvp please realize I'm not technical service.

The code is barely 50 lines. In the time you've spent polluting the thread you could have just fork the project and adapt it to your needs.

[dimitarvp]

@Zeioth You advertised your tool here, not me. If it doesn't work then of course you'll be told about it.

[Zeioth]

The code is shipped on a distro with several thousands of users. I can guarantee you it works.

[anjos]

I also tested the solution, and the plugin works, however not in headless mode. A synchronous MasonUpdateAll would be the solution for headless mode. @Zeioth's code could be used as a fork if somebody knows how to make it synchronous with minimal mods? Or add a synchronous version as a PR to that repo?

[Zeioth]

No problem, if you send a PR with the instructions to test it I will review it. Hopefuly the feature will be added natively to Mason eventually.

[NeilGirdhar]

@Zeioth Thank you for taking the time to make this tool. FYI I'm running into another major problem whereby :LspRestart is non-existent unless :Mason is called first. Removing the MasonUpdateAll code fixes things.

[Zeioth]

Please, take the time to read the code. It's barely a couple lines, and it does nothing that could provoke that.

https://github.com/Zeioth/mason-extra-cmds/blob/main/lua/masonextracmds/mason.lua

[NeilGirdhar]

@Zeioth Sorry, I can't understand Lua. I know that when I remove it, the LSP commands are back.