[Distutils] easy_install --upgrade-all ?

[Ned Deily]

In article 
<4c2f1fd6-efc2-4947-9ac1-1cfa7f28d762 at r16g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>,
 "rupert.thurner" <rupert.thurner at gmail.com> wrote:
> is there a possibility to upgrade all installed eggs with easy_install
> resp setuptools?

yolk -U queries PyPI and reports which installed packages are 
out-of-date.

<http://pypi.python.org/pypi/yolk>

A little bit of hackery could turn the output into easy_install 
commands, maybe something like:

  yolk -U | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | xargs easy_install

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