Winget question

When I get a notification that updates are available this is what I see:

I run the updates, they are marked as completed.
Then a day or so later, I get another request to run the same updates.
It seems, to me, that when the updates have been done successfully a step is missing that would mark those updates have been run so that they would no longer appear in the next update.
I hope you understand my issue.
Murray

The version numbers are different between the one you have currently and the one available.

pseymour:
I don't think so; if the update was run successfully, then why is the version number not also updated??

You don't think so? It's clearly showing two different version numbers in your screenshot. If you run those updates, does the version number change to 7.0.410 for SDK 7, and 6.0.423 for SDK 6? These SDKs are updated at least once a month, sometimes more.



.NET 7 is end-of-life, by the way.

You're misunderstanding me, AFTER the update is done, why is the version number NOT updated??

What happens when you run winget without -h (silent mode), and watch what's it doing?

Murray Sobol said:

You're misunderstanding me, AFTER the update is done, why is the version number NOT updated??

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I'm not misunderstanding. All I have to go on is your screenshot. When you say you ran the updates, you didn't specify any version numbers, which is why I asked what happens to the version numbers when you run those listed updates.

Murray Sobol said:

It seems, to me, that when the updates have been done successfully a step is missing

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Have you restarted? Since you have a laptop, it might have hibernated instead. Try to force restart:

Here's the output:
C:\>winget upgrade --all
Name Id Version Available Source
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft .NET SDK 7.0.317 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.7 7.0.317 7.0.410 winget
Microsoft .NET SDK 6.0.321 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.6 6.0.321 6.0.423 winget
2 upgrades available.

(1/2) Found Microsoft .NET SDK 7.0 [Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.7] Version 7.0.410
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://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/7.0.410/dotnet-sdk-7.0.410-win-x64.exe
██████████████████████████████ 218 MB / 218 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

(2/2) Found Microsoft .NET SDK 6.0 [Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.6] Version 6.0.423
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://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/6.0.423/dotnet-sdk-6.0.423-win-x64.exe
██████████████████████████████ 196 MB / 196 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

2 package(s) have version numbers that cannot be determined. Use --include-unknown to see all results.

It looks like, to me, that the 2 modules were updated.


I am curious, though, about the last message: 2 package(s) have version numbers that cannot be determined.

How would I determine which those 2 packages are??

Hi TairikuOkami
I tried the shutdown command as you suggested but I get the same output as in the above post.
Any ideas re: 2 package(s) have version numbers that cannot be determined.

How would I determine which packages they are?

I've noticed that winget struggles in certain circumstances such as having a USER and SYSTEM install of the same application which causes winget to show multiple versions and both try and fail to upgrade or when an application installer is garbage and doesn't either update or remove an old uninstall string from the registry.

Try "winget upgrade --all --include-unknown"

Murray Sobol said:

I am curious, though, about the last message: 2 package(s) have version numbers that cannot be determined.
How would I determine which those 2 packages are??

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I use this:

Hi Garlin:
Here is the output:
C:\>winget upgrade --all --include-unknown
Name Id Version Available Source
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Microsoft .NET SDK 7.0.317 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.7 7.0.317 7.0.410 winget
Microsoft .NET SDK 6.0.321 (x64) Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.6 6.0.321 6.0.423 winget
2 upgrades available.

(1/2) Found Microsoft .NET SDK 7.0 [Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.7] Version 7.0.410
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://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/7.0.410/dotnet-sdk-7.0.410-win-x64.exe
██████████████████████████████ 218 MB / 218 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

(2/2) Found Microsoft .NET SDK 6.0 [Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.6] Version 6.0.423
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://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/6.0.423/dotnet-sdk-6.0.423-win-x64.exe
██████████████████████████████ 196 MB / 196 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

Notice that the message about "2 package(s) have version numbers that cannot be determined." has disappeared.

Here's something interesting, I tried to determine the version of ,NET SDK 6.0 using this command: winget show "Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.6"

Here is the output from that command:
Found Microsoft .NET SDK 6.0 [Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.6]
Version: 6.0.423
Publisher: Microsoft Corporation
Moniker: dotnet-sdk-6
Description: .NET is a free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform for building many different types of applications.
Homepage: .NET | Build. Test. Deploy.
License: MIT
Tags:
.NET
.NET Core
dotnet
net
C#
csharp
F#
fsharp
VB
Visual Basic
SDK
Installer:
Installer Type: burn
Installer Url: https://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/6.0.423/dotnet-sdk-6.0.423-win-x64.exe
Installer SHA256: 304ae842ba21ce5166827268591660fac6e29be9413587617c519fb3882f9104
Offline Distribution Supported: true

If I'm reading the above output correctly, doesn't it show the version to be 6.0.423, i.e. the version I expected it to be AFTER the upgrade.

But, if I run the upgrade a second time, it still tries to upgrade from the old version to the new version.

Very confusing, isn't it!!

I don't develop with .NET, but don't you have to reboot before a new SDK takes effect?

Hi TairikuOkami
I tried your command: winget upgrade --all -h --include-unknown --accept-package-agreements --accept-source-agreements
but still get the same results, the 2 packages are still being shown as requiring updates if I run the command a second time.

garlin said:

I don't develop with .NET, but don't you have to reboot before a new SDK takes effect?

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I've tried rebooting with this command: shutdown /r /f /t 0 but it doesn't change anything.

I dunno. Since you're comfortable with winget, uninstall one of the two SDK's as an experiment. Check if it's completely gone, then install it again. Maybe the winget metadata is broken.

If you follow this thread: Winget question You will see that I am having problems with Winget.

Is it possible that this is a bug within the product and, if so, can it be corrected??

Or, is there ANOTHER command format ( I have tried multiple variations) that I could try??


Thanks