swiftly update fails with `package path specified was invalid`
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Description
macOS 26.6
$ swiftly self-update
Checking for swiftly updates...
Checking for swiftly updates...
A new version of swiftly is available: 1.1.4
Downloading swiftly 1.1.4
100% [==================================================================================================================================================================================================]
Downloaded 9.8 MiB of 9.8 MiB
Extracting the swiftly package...
installer: Error - the package path specified was invalid: '/var/folders/7v/pk4tg0l50fxbj6wqz12vtnlh0000gn/T/swiftly-EA34D5EB-5F2E-4D96-AABB-A62D23DDA4DA'.
Error: RunProgramError(exitCode: 1, program: "installer", arguments: ["-pkg", "/var/folders/7v/pk4tg0l50fxbj6wqz12vtnlh0000gn/T/swiftly-EA34D5EB-5F2E-4D96-AABB-A62D23DDA4DA", "-target", "CurrentUserHomeDirectory"])
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Research direction
Reproduce the failure on macOS 26.6 with swiftly self-update and inspect the self-update extraction flow and its macOS installer invocation. Trace how the downloaded package path is formed; done means the update completes successfully instead of passing an invalid path to installer.
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- swift
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- Issue type
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