rust-lang / rust-lang/rustup

Suggest performing self-update first

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Description

Describe the problem you are trying to solve

  1. 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.

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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.

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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

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