Upgrading a package does not add/remove links

[pjeby]

The upgrade command issues a pull, but before that it should unlink everything, then relink after pulling. Otherwise, new commands, completions and man pages aren't installed, and old ones aren't removed.

[juanibiapina]

That is true.

[juanibiapina]

I was thinking in actually just running uninstall and install again, which would solve problems with links, completions, man pages, etc.

This would also upgrade packages which were installed with a tag, effectively making them upgradable. cc @YarekTyshchenko

[YarekTyshchenko]

I often run:

basher outdated | xargs -n 1 basher upgrade

But I have seen problems where weird repo history caused the simple git commands run by basher to fail. I'd be happy with a re-install instead of upgrade. Makes the whole thing simpler, and therefore more predictable when shipping software. +1.

[juanibiapina]

This only causes a problem when the repo is saving information inside its own directory structure, which I would argue it shouldn't (but basher does 😭 )

[cornfeedhobo]

@juanibiapina Hacktoberfest is right around the corner ;)

@YarekTyshchenko You might like this..

while read -r pkg; do basher uninstall "$pkg" && basher install "$pkg"; done < <(basher outdated)