Packages that do not upgrade o report incorrect package version

[musm]

The following packages

Cisco Webex Meetings              Cisco.CiscoWebexMeetings 41.5.4       41.5.6.9    winget
Geekbench 5                       PrimateLabs.Geekbench.5  Unknown      5.4.1       winget
Mozilla Firefox                   Mozilla.Firefox          89.0         89.0.1      winget
WhatsApp                          WhatsApp.WhatsApp        2.2121.6     2.2123.7    winget
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime Microsoft.dotnetRuntime  3.1.16.30112 5.0.7.30113 winget

Prepetually state that they are upgradable, despite upgrading them multiple times. I suspect there is an issue somewhere with the packages reporitng their version numbers.

[OfficialEsco]

TLDR; This is a winget CLI issue, the package versions are correct

PS C:\Users\Esco> winget install Cisco.CiscoWebexMeetings; winget install PrimateLabs.Geekbench.5; winget install Mozilla.Firefox ; winget install WhatsApp.WhatsApp ; winget install Microsoft.dotnetRuntime
Found Cisco Webex Meetings [Cisco.CiscoWebexMeetings]
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://akamaicdn.webex.com/client/WBXclient-41.5.6-9/webexapp.msi
  ██████████████████████████████   130 MB /  130 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed
Found Geekbench 5 [PrimateLabs.Geekbench.5]
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://cdn.geekbench.com/Geekbench-5.4.1-WindowsSetup.exe
  ██████████████████████████████   119 MB /  119 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed
Found Mozilla Firefox [Mozilla.Firefox]
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/89.0.1/win64/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%2089.0.1.msi
  ██████████████████████████████  53.3 MB / 53.3 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed
Found WhatsApp [WhatsApp.WhatsApp]
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://web.whatsapp.com/desktop/windows/release/x64/WhatsAppSetup.exe
  ██████████████████████████████   124 MB /  124 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed
Found Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime [Microsoft.dotnetRuntime]
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://download.visualstudio.microsoft.com/download/pr/2b83d30e-5c86-4d37-a1a6-582e22ac07b2/c7b1b7e21761bbfb7b9951f5b258806e/windowsdesktop-runtime-5.0.7-win-x64.exe
  ██████████████████████████████  52.3 MB / 52.3 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

PS C:\Users\Esco> winget list
Name                                       Id                                         Version          Available Source
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Geekbench 5                                PrimateLabs.Geekbench.5                    Unknown          5.4.1     winget
Mozilla Firefox                            Mozilla.Firefox                            89.0.1
WhatsApp                                   WhatsApp.WhatsApp                          2.2123.7
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime          Microsoft.dotnetRuntime                    5.0.7.30113
Cisco Webex Meetings                       Cisco.CiscoWebexMeetings                   41.5.6.9

Geekbench is not reporting its version so that is a Geekbench issue.

PS C:\Users\Esco> winget upgrade
Name        Id                      Version Available Source
------------------------------------------------------------
Geekbench 5 PrimateLabs.Geekbench.5 Unknown 5.4.1     winget

[KaranKad]

Might be related to this #1191 (comment)

[musm]

@KaranKad That does indeed seem to fix the Mozilla and WhatsApp issues. Hopefully when those packages get an update, I won't have the same problem.

[musm]

So geekbench doesn't report the correct version, it seems like it would make sense for winget-cli to then fallback gracefuly to the verison recorded in the Manifest? That should be doable if winget records the installed version for packages through winget-pkgs.

[denelon]

We've started recording the packages installed by Windows Package Manager. The challenge is we're not informed when a user performs an upgrade outside of the package manager, and if they don't report the version information in Windows Apps & Features. We have no way of knowing which version is currently installed. We could still inadvertently downgrade a user.

[denelon]

I think we've captured the scenarios here in Windows Package Manager 1.3 Release Candidate.

The exclusion of "Unknown" packages by default in winget upgrade --all gets some of them and I believe the rest are captured by:

• Winget should only consider the highest version if multiple versions of the same package are installed #1543

Can you confirm?

[ghost]

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