Distillation

🔴 (03:23) User stated package managers always need network access to fetch and install packages; this requirement is documented around line 265 of upgrade.ts.
🔴 (03:24) User’s release-channel setup logic imports setReleaseChannel from ../../lib/db/release-channel.js; when flags.channel is present, lines 507–519 persist it using bestEffort("Recording release channel", ...) and setReleaseChannel(channel), emitting Recorded release channel: ${channel} unless flags.install is true.
🔴 (03:24) User specified sentry cli upgrade nightly to “Switch to nightly channel and update,” as shown in CLI help text at line 931.

Observations