Useless installation of temporary CLI

Command

update

Is this a regression?

• Yes, this behavior used to work in the previous version

The previous version in which this bug was not present was

No response

Description

I’m not sure if this should be a bug or a feature, it’s more of an annoyance.

Every week when I check with ‘ng update’ it first complains that the CLI is outdated and starts installing a temporary CLI version, which takes a while. Then it tells me there is a new CLI version and I have to install it again with ‘ng update @angular/cli’, this time for real. Next time I do a ‘ng update’ it quickly shows me, without the delay.

Is it really necessary to install a new temporary cli version every week ?

Or maybe if there is a new one, can’t we have question or a parameter to install the new CLI version (automatically), instead of installing it temporarily (and thus twice)? Just like when you type ‘ng new’ you also get a question.

Minimal Reproduction

ng update

The installed Angular CLI version is outdated. Installing a temporary Angular CLI versioned 14.2.5 to perform the update. √ Packages successfully installed.

Exception or Error

No response

Your Environment

Angular CLI: 14.2.5
Node: 16.16.0
Package Manager: npm 8.3.0
OS: win32 x64

Anything else relevant?

No response

[alan-agius4]

Following a convo with @clydin we decided that we will disable downloading a temporary version of the Angular CLI when running ng update without any package name. Since in this cases an update to date update executer is not neccessary.

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