[Package Issue]: GNU.Emacs does not register as installed after successful installation

[xgqt]

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• I have searched for my issue and not found a work-in-progress/duplicate/resolved issue.
• I have not been informed if the issue is resolved in a preview version of the winget client.

Category of the issue

Installation issue.

Brief description of your issue

GNU.Emacs does not register as installed after successful installation.

This is a dusplicate of resolved issue #88443 (comment) but the issue was not fixed. If this package is still left broken I think it would be better to delete it.

Steps to reproduce

winget install --source winget --verbose GNU.Emacs
winget list

Actual behavior

GNU.Emacs is not on the list.
Because of this then a installation is requested GNU.Emacs will be always reinstalled.

Expected behavior

GNU.Emacs registers in the system as installed application.

Environment

-> winget --info
Windows Package Manager v1.6.3482
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.22631.2861
System Architecture: X64
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.21.3482.0

Winget Directories
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Logs                               %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\DiagOutputDir
User Settings                      %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json
Portable Links Directory (User)    %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Links
Portable Links Directory (Machine) C:\Program Files\WinGet\Links
Portable Package Root (User)       %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\WinGet\Packages
Portable Package Root              C:\Program Files\WinGet\Packages
Portable Package Root (x86)        C:\Program Files (x86)\WinGet\Packages
Installer Downloads                %USERPROFILE%\Downloads

Links
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Privacy Statement   https://aka.ms/winget-privacy
License Agreement   https://aka.ms/winget-license
Third Party Notices https://aka.ms/winget-3rdPartyNotice
Homepage            https://aka.ms/winget
Windows Store Terms https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/storedocs/terms-of-sale

Admin Setting                             State
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LocalManifestFiles                        Disabled
BypassCertificatePinningForMicrosoftStore Disabled
InstallerHashOverride                     Disabled
LocalArchiveMalwareScanOverride           Disabled

Screenshots and Logs

None

[xgqt]

We could work around this by explicitly adding some record that GNU Emacs was installed always after the provided installers succeeds but I do not know winget and do not know if this is possible now. WDYT?

[stephengillie]

Since #136062 is merged, I'll assume this is complete. If this is in error, please @ me and I'll reopen.

[neerolyte]

@stephengillie The reported issue still occurs on 29.4:

PS C:\> winget install GNU.Emacs
Found GNU Emacs [GNU.Emacs] Version 29.4
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://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/emacs-29/emacs-29.4-installer.exe
  ██████████████████████████████  69.5 MB / 69.5 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed
PS C:\> winget list | select-string emacs
PS C:\>