WinGet keeps reinstalling same updates that were marked as successful

[birbilis]

Brief description of your issue

Seems WinGet keeps on installing (some of) the updates again and again

Steps to reproduce

probably machine-specific, see output

Expected behavior

Shouldn't keep on installing the same succesful installs

Actual behavior

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22000.778]
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C:\WINDOWS\system32>winget upgrade --all -h
Found 7-Zip [7zip.7zip] Version 22.00
Found Git [Git.Git] Version 2.37.0
Found VoiceBot [BinaryFortress.VoiceBot] Version 3.8.2
Found Microsoft Teams [Microsoft.Teams] Version 1.5.00.14473
Found Webex [Cisco.WebexTeams] Version 42.6.0.22645
Found LibreOffice [TheDocumentFoundation.LibreOffice] Version 7.3.4.2
Found Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64) [Microsoft.VC++2015-2022Redist-x64] Version 14.32.31332.0
Found GOG GALAXY [GOG.Galaxy] Version 2.0.49.1
Found OpenVPN [OpenVPNTechnologies.OpenVPN] Version 2.5.036
Found Viber [Viber.Viber] Version 17.9.0.0
(1/10) Found 7-Zip [7zip.7zip] Version 22.00
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://www.7-zip.org/a/7z2200-x64.exe
██████████████████████████████ 1.49 MB / 1.49 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

(2/10) Found Git [Git.Git] Version 2.37.0
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://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/download/v2.37.0.windows.1/Git-2.37.0-64-bit.exe
██████████████████████████████ 46.9 MB / 46.9 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

(3/10) Found VoiceBot [BinaryFortress.VoiceBot] Version 3.8.2
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

(4/10) Found Microsoft Teams [Microsoft.Teams] Version 1.5.00.14473
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://statics.teams.cdn.office.net/production-windows-x64/1.5.00.14473/Teams_windows_x64.exe
██████████████████████████████ 120 MB / 120 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

(5/10) Found Webex [Cisco.WebexTeams] Version 42.6.0.22645
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://binaries.webex.com/WebexTeamsDesktop-Windows-Gold/Webex.msi
██████████████████████████████ 278 MB / 278 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

(6/10) Found LibreOffice [TheDocumentFoundation.LibreOffice] Version 7.3.4.2
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://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/7.3.4.2/win/x86_64/LibreOffice_7.3.4.2_Win_x64.msi
██████████████████████████████ 331 MB / 331 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

(7/10) Found Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64) [Microsoft.VC++2015-2022Redist-x64] Version 14.32.31332.0
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/ed95ef9e-da02-4735-9064-bd1f7f69b6ed/CE6593A1520591E7DEA2B93FD03116E3FC3B3821A0525322B0A430FAA6B3C0B4/VC_redist.x64.exe
██████████████████████████████ 24.0 MB / 24.0 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

(8/10) Found GOG GALAXY [GOG.Galaxy] Version 2.0.49.1
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Installer failed with exit code: 1
Installer log is available at: C:\Users\birbi\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\DiagOutputDir\WinGet-GOG.Galaxy.2.0.49.1-2022-07-07-05-01-51.906.log

(9/10) Found OpenVPN [OpenVPNTechnologies.OpenVPN] Version 2.5.036
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://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/OpenVPN-2.5.7-I602-amd64.msi
██████████████████████████████ 4.18 MB / 4.18 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

(10/10) Found Viber [Viber.Viber] Version 17.9.0.0
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.cdn.viber.com/desktop/windows/ViberSetup.exe
██████████████████████████████ 122 MB / 122 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

C:\WINDOWS\system32>winget upgrade --all -h
Found VoiceBot [BinaryFortress.VoiceBot] Version 3.8.2
Found Webex [Cisco.WebexTeams] Version 42.6.0.22645
Found GOG GALAXY [GOG.Galaxy] Version 2.0.49.1
Found Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64) [Microsoft.VC++2015-2022Redist-x64] Version 14.32.31332.0
(1/4) Found VoiceBot [BinaryFortress.VoiceBot] Version 3.8.2
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://binaryfortressdownloads.com/Download/BFSFiles/123/VoiceBotSetup-3.8.2.exe
██████████████████████████████ 12.2 MB / 12.2 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

(2/4) Found Webex [Cisco.WebexTeams] Version 42.6.0.22645
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://binaries.webex.com/WebexTeamsDesktop-Windows-Gold/Webex.msi
██████████████████████████████ 278 MB / 278 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

(3/4) Found GOG GALAXY [GOG.Galaxy] Version 2.0.49.1
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Installer failed with exit code: 1
Installer log is available at: C:\Users\birbi\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\DiagOutputDir\WinGet-GOG.Galaxy.2.0.49.1-2022-07-07-05-14-20.753.log

(4/4) Found Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64) [Microsoft.VC++2015-2022Redist-x64] Version 14.32.31332.0
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/ed95ef9e-da02-4735-9064-bd1f7f69b6ed/CE6593A1520591E7DEA2B93FD03116E3FC3B3821A0525322B0A430FAA6B3C0B4/VC_redist.x64.exe
██████████████████████████████ 24.0 MB / 24.0 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

C:\WINDOWS\system32>winget upgrade --all -h
Found VoiceBot [BinaryFortress.VoiceBot] Version 3.8.2
Found Webex [Cisco.WebexTeams] Version 42.6.0.22645
Found GOG GALAXY [GOG.Galaxy] Version 2.0.49.1
Found Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64) [Microsoft.VC++2015-2022Redist-x64] Version 14.32.31332.0
(1/4) Found VoiceBot [BinaryFortress.VoiceBot] Version 3.8.2
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://binaryfortressdownloads.com/Download/BFSFiles/123/VoiceBotSetup-3.8.2.exe
██████████████████████████████ 6.00 MB / 12.2 MB
Package download canceled.

Cancelled

Environment

Windows Package Manager v1.2.11601
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.22000.778
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.17.11601.0

[Trenly]

• GOG is because of an unknown version. Update to the latest preview version of the client to fix this. GOG Galaxy has unknown version winget-pkgs#27206
• VC++ is because of a regex issue and no fix is available yet Unable to disambiguate package Microsoft.VC++2013Redist-x64 #1413
• WebexTeams is most likely because of some weirdness with how the publisher updates their application, and isn’t something we can fix; See the comments on this thread Cisco.CiscoWebexMeetings failed to upgrade winget-pkgs#28846 (comment)

[frankhale]

I am also seeing where winget says I have updates but it's definitely already installed them. If I run winget upgrade --all then it will just reinstall the same things over and over again and still report that they have not been upgraded.

Here is my list of apps that report upgrades but are already installed:

[Trenly]

• Firefox is due to an issue with DisplayVersion mapping. See @yao-msft’s comments in Remove DisplayVersion from Mozilla.Firefox.DeveloperEdition version 1… winget-pkgs#65875
• SQLServerManagementStudio is due to Multiple same name packages appeared right after the package upgrade #2152
• The dotnet runtimes are due to there being multiple versions of the runtime installed side-by-side and is related to Unable to disambiguate package Microsoft.VC++2013Redist-x64 #1413
• The Visual C++ Redistributables are also due to there being multiple versions side by side and is also caused by Unable to disambiguate package Microsoft.VC++2013Redist-x64 #1413
• WindowsPCHealthCheck has two installation options - OEM and Winget. If upgraded through winget, sometimes the OEM version will not be uninstalled. Check winget list WindowsPCHealthCheck to see if you have more than one version installed. Related to Windows PC Health Check showing upgrade but not applicable #2053

[frankhale]

Thank you @Trenly for that detailed info!!!

Looks like Windows PC Health Check was only installed using winget

[denelon]

The list doesn't mean that HealthCheck came from the "winget" source, it just means we were able to match the installed package against one that is available in the source.

[dgee2]

I'm also seeing this issue with several packages. One solution that I have thought of is for there to be an option to hide packages from winget. i.e. if there is a package that I don't want winget to manage and I will manage manually, add it to some exclusion list.

[birbilis]

Apart from allowing to set an exclusion list, could detect such cases (or at least the package installation failures) and suggest to the user how to add to the exclusion list.
Also could maybe send some info to the author of that package, probably user could opt in to send more info about the environment the issue occurs at.
For cases where it thinks it installed it, it's probably harder to detect (unless it added an installation verification option where it would check if the just installed new package version is detected after install)

[frankhale]

This is getting super frustrating. Winget keeps saying there are upgrades even after everything has been upgraded.

[AHBAdmin]

Notice also that this seems to be happening predominantly with Microsoft packages:

After upgrade:

[denelon]

This issue is primarily caused by packages with versions that install "side-by-side".

As we iterate over the list, we look for upgrades.

If you have version 1 installed and run upgrade, version 2 gets "added".

Then when we iterate over again, we see version 1 and it needs an upgrade even though version 2 is installed.

We're working on a fix to detect if the latest version of a package is already installed to reduce the friction here.