Move steps requiring root password at the beginning

[Crocmagnon]

I want to suggest some general feature

Topgrade should run the steps requiring passwords at the beginning, so that users can leave an upgrade mostly unattended after it has started.

For example on macOS : tlmgr requires the root password and in my system it is typically run in the middle of the process:

── 08:47:15 - Summary ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Brew (ARM): OK
Brew Cask (ARM): OK
fisher: OK
TLDR: OK
rustup: OK
cargo: OK
pipx: OK
tlmgr: OK
chezmoi: OK
npm: OK
Containers: OK
krew: OK
GitHub CLI Extensions: OK
System upgrade: OK

More information

Test process:

• Run topgrade on a system where tlmgr is available and enabled
• tlmgr should run at the beginning

Same goes for all steps requiring a password.

[ealap]

Or if it becomes hard to keep track of which commands might need password/user prompts, let the users define the priority commands

priority = ["system", "commands", "tlmgr", "cargo", "tldr"]

• the execution also follows their order in the list
• non-prio commands will follow the default order
• pre_commands are still executed before priority commands

[Crocmagnon]

Yes, I guess that would also solve the issue in a nice and easier way 👍🏻

[SteveLauC]

Hi @ConfusedSky, have you tried the pre_sudo option? This seems to be able to resolve this issue:

[misc]
pre_sudo = true

Once enabled, topgrade will execute sudo -v before updating other tools to cache the sudo credential.

$ topgrade

── 17:33:54 - Sudo ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

# So that you don't need to input password for tools that require `sudo`