bug: updating appium, driver or plugin, is not synchronized in node_modules/.cache/appium/extensions.yaml about appium HOT 6 OPEN

How did you manage Appium? Usually the path to module installation would be like:
~/.appium/node_modules/.cache/appium/extensions.yaml

So I guess your local has custom APPIUM_HOME to... perhaps APPIUM_HOME=~/?
For images plugin installation. you may need to run appium plugin install images
https://appium.io/docs/en/latest/cli/extensions/

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handle the old packages automatically

Not sure what you mean by that. Could you please describe in more details what is expected, step by step?

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The expected behavior is : I upgrade appium / appium plugin / appium driver , the file extensions.yaml should be updated automatically
the current behavior : extensions.yml (as attached here) had the old version of appium and images plugin after upgrading it ... when I deleted appium and reinstall it the appium version in extensions.yml has been updated but when I did the same thing to appium image plugin it didn't manage to solve the problem
the actual workaround : delete the appium -> delete its ecosystem (plugins , driver etc ..) -> delete the file extensions.yml manually -> reinstall it again

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Did you try out update? (this is not the latest appium though)

% appium plugin install [email protected]
✔ Installing '[email protected]' using NPM install spec '@appium/[email protected]'
ℹ Plugin [email protected] successfully installed
% cat ~/.appium/node_modules/.cache/appium/extensions.yaml
drivers: {}
plugins:
  images:
    pkgName: "@appium/images-plugin"
    version: 3.0.0
    installType: npm
    installSpec: [email protected]
    installPath: /Users/kazu/.appium/node_modules/@appium/images-plugin
    appiumVersion: ^2.0.0
    mainClass: ImageElementPlugin
schemaRev: 4
% appium plugin update images
✔ Checking if plugin 'images' is updatable
✔ Checking if plugin 'images' needs an update
✔ Installing 'images' using NPM install spec '@appium/[email protected]'
✔ Updating driver 'images' from 3.0.0 to 3.0.6
ℹ Update report:
✔   - plugin images updated: 3.0.0 => 3.0.6
% cat ~/.appium/node_modules/.cache/appium/extensions.yaml
drivers: {}
plugins:
  images:
    pkgName: "@appium/images-plugin"
    version: 3.0.6
    installType: npm
    installSpec: images
    installPath: /Users/kazu/.appium/node_modules/@appium/images-plugin
    appiumVersion: ^2.0.0
    mainClass: ImageElementPlugin
schemaRev: 4

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I think that I got it why:
Besides all those steps above, and in parallel, I had appium running in another terminal maybe that's why it kept cache file.

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