[feature] self upgrading release binary

[kskarthik]

The idea is to have similar feature to deno upgrade & bun upgrade in which the user can upgrade the existing binary using a cli flag.

This will be a useful feature for many users whose distributions which always do not ship with latest versions of the cli

I wish to work on this patch if we can agree on implementing such feature.

[speatzle]

I do not know of any distributions that ships go-passbolt-cli in their repositories, which is why i always planned to provide my own deb and rpm repositories for easy updates but got stalled due to my limited time and low demand.

Would having generic deb and rpm repositories solve your Issue? I think building an Updater from Scratch would be quite complex since it would also need to handle things like man pages and shell completions. The security implications would also have to be considered.

[kskarthik]

i have initially found this lib which can do the heavy lifing (also includes security aspects like checksum verification) https://github.com/creativeprojects/go-selfupdate

Would having generic deb and rpm repositories solve your Issue?

yes, it would. But it also implies user should add custom repos to their system

[speatzle]

I don't see how that library can update additional files like man pages or shell completions (maybe i missed it?). Also if anything goes wrong and can't start it anymore there is no possibility to downgrade again. I generally dislike the Windows Style Self updating.

I don't see adding custom repositories as such a big deal (you also have to do that if you are installing the passbolt server). go-passbolt-cli Simply is not big enough to be included in distros.

I tried to avoid having to add custom repos by looking into packaging the CLI as a Flatpak instead but their CLI Support has "Issues" we would have to work around flatpak/flatpak#1188 .

[kskarthik]

I don't see how that library can update additional files like man pages or shell completions (maybe i missed it?). Also if anything goes wrong and can't start it anymore there is no possibility to downgrade again. I generally dislike the Windows Style Self updating.

Yes, The lib i shared does not handle man pages & shell completions.

I tried to avoid having to add custom repos by looking into packaging the CLI as a Flatpak instead but their CLI Support has "Issues" we would have to work around flatpak/flatpak#1188 .

yes, flatpaks are not ideal for CLIs. We have to add an alias & no support for man pages AFAIK