Winget wants to upgrade up-to-date packages

[avysk]

Brief description of your issue

Winget wants to upgrade DOSBox-X to version 2024.10.01. However, Windows sees it as already installed

Performing the upgrade does not help.

Steps to reproduce

winget upgrade shows

DOSBox-X 2024.03.01 (32/64bit for XP) joncampbell123.DOSBox-X < 2024.10.01 2024.10.01 winget

Expected behavior

I would expect that winget does not offer upgrade the package to the same version, as already installed (notice that Windows sees the right version).

Actual behavior

Upgrade of DOSBox-X is constantly offered.

Environment

❯ winget --info
Windows Package Manager v1.9.25200
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.26100.2314
System Architecture: X64
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.24.25200.0

Winget Directories
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Logs                               %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Loc…
User Settings                      %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Loc…
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                D:\Downloads

Links
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
ProxyCommandLineOptions                   Disabled
DefaultProxy                              Disabled


Windows 11, 24H2 (26100.2314)

[similar-issues-ai]

We've found some similar issues:

• [Package Issue]: joncampbell123.DOSBox-X #131327 , similarity score: 83%
• [Package Issue]: joncampbell123.DOSBox-X #127278 , similarity score: 83%
• DOSBoxSVN-Daum/20150125 #133464 , similarity score: 82%

If any of the above are duplicates, please consider closing this issue out and adding additional context in the original issue.

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[Trenly]

@avysk - Can you share the output and log files from winget list dosbox --verbose --logs? I'm not able to reproduce this on a fresh install -

PS C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\Desktop\winget-pkgs> winget list dosbox
Name                                       Id                      Version    Source
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DOSBox-X 2024.10.01 (32/64bit for Windows) joncampbell123.DOSBox-X 2024.10.01 winget
PS C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\Desktop\winget-pkgs> winget upgrade
No installed package found matching input criteria.

[avysk]

Hmm. Because of some reason winget sees two versions:

❯ winget list dosbox --verbose --logs
Name                                                 Id                      Version      Available  Source
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DOSBox-X 2024.03.01 (32/64bit for XP)                joncampbell123.DOSBox-X < 2024.10.01 2024.10.01 winget
DOSBox-X 2024.10.01 (32/64bit for Windows) (All use… joncampbell123.DOSBox-X 2024.10.01              winget

I wonder what is happening because Windows (as I showed above) sees only one.

[Trenly]

@denelon - this should be moved to CLI; Area-Matching and Side-by-Side

@avysk - you might be able to get around this by using the exact name to uninstall the older version -

winget uninstall "DOSBox-X 2024.03.01 (32/64bit for XP) "

[avysk]

This completely removed DOSBox-X from my system. I have reinstalled it with winget install dosbox-x and winget upgrade no longer shows it. Before I did it I launched DOSBox-X and checked the version in Help|About; it was 2024.10.01.

[Trenly]

This completely removed DOSBox-X from my system. I have reinstalled it with winget install dosbox-x and winget upgrade no longer shows it. Before I did it I launched DOSBox-X and checked the version in Help|About; it was 2024.10.01.

Interessting. . .
Seems like there must have been something about the installer that didn’t clean up all the old version information

Glad to hear that a reinstall fixed it!

[stephengillie]

The package manager operates by matching data in repo against data in Registry. Sometimes, this bug is caused by having old Registry entries, and sometimes uninstalling the actually-installed package also removes those orphaned entries. Such might have occurred here.