{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteor/meteor/issues/3902","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteor/meteor/issues/3902/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteor/meteor/issues/3902/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteor/meteor/issues/3902/events","html_url":"https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/3902","id":60434484,"number":3902,"title":"When trying to update a project, it first downloads the old version of meteor","user":{"login":"jamgold","id":599219,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/599219?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold","html_url":"https://github.com/jamgold","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteor/meteor/labels/Project:Tool","name":"Project:Tool","color":"c7def8"}],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2015-03-10T00:49:36Z","updated_at":"2015-03-10T22:35:50Z","closed_at":"2015-03-10T21:04:34Z","body":"There is no built-in way to delete old version of the meteor tool or packages, so I recently blew away and re-installed meteor to get rid of some cruft on my SSD. Unfortunately, the update option first downloads the original version meteor\r\n\r\n```\r\n cat .meteor/release \r\n0.8.2\r\n meteor update\r\nInstalling Meteor 0.8.2:                      \r\n * 'meteor' build tool (version 858c88b520)\r\nyaddiyadd\r\n```\r\nit would be nice to avoid that and/or have an option to clean out $HOME/.meteor. Alternatively a plugin infrastructure for the ```meteor``` command would be cool, then we could write little add ons "},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteor/meteor/issues/comments/78163528","html_url":"https://github.com/meteor/meteor/issues/3902#issuecomment-78163528","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/meteor/meteor/issues/3902","id":78163528,"user":{"login":"jamgold","id":599219,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/599219?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold","html_url":"https://github.com/jamgold","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jamgold/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-03-10T22:35:50Z","updated_at":"2015-03-10T22:35:50Z","body":"> As a workaround for this particular case, you can just run meteor update --release 1.0.3.2 or whatever directly, which will hit the \"you specified a release\" case and not run the old version.\r\n\r\nthat makes total sense, didn't know that. Either way, I started writing a little nodejs cli tool to purge $HOME/.meteor\r\n\r\nThanks for responding"}}