fix: make self-update work with unversioned binary - #568
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`go install` will compile from source and no version information will be available. In order to be able to use the self-update mechanism, it has to be able to replace an unversioned binary with a versioned one.
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go installwill compile from source and no version information will be available. In order to be able to use the self-update mechanism, it has to be able to replace an unversioned binary with a versioned one.