Suggest performing self-update first
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- Rust
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Description
Describe the problem you are trying to solve
- Users suffer buggy versions of rustup one time more than they need to.
Describe the solution you'd like
Rustup should self update first, not last, and then continue the update process.
Notes
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing rustup's update flow and locating where self-update currently occurs. The change is done when rustup self-updates before continuing the rest of the update process, while preserving the intended update behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100