"upgrade --all" states that apps are upgraded, but they aren't

[weiss-d]

Brief description of your issue

Winget finds a bunch of apps to upgrade, runs the installers successfully, but as a result apps are not being upgraded.

Steps to reproduce

I.e. I have foobar2000 v1.6.7
winget upgrade says it has v1.6.10 (see screenshot). Then I run winget upgrade PeterPawlowski.foobar2000 and in seems to install it correctly according to the output (see screenshot).

Expected behavior

Then when I run foobar2000 after update I should see v1.6.10...

Actual behavior

... but I still have 1.6.7 (see screenshot), and when I run winget upgrade once again it shows me that 1.6.10 available.

The same situation repeats for 5-10 apps each time (now it repeats for all apps listed in the screensot).

Environment

PS C:\Users\weiss-d> winget --info
Windows Package Manager v1.2.10271
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.19043.1586
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.17.10271.0

Logs: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\DiagOutputDir

...

[denelon]

Is upgrade installing the new version as a separate "side by side" package? What do you see in Windows Apps & Features?

You can also run winget list foo to search installed programs with "foo" in their name.

[weiss-d]

@denelon looks like it's not the case

PS C:\Users\weiss-d> winget list foobar
Name       Id                        Version Available Source
-------------------------------------------------------------
foobar2000 PeterPawlowski.foobar2000 1.6.7   1.6.10    winget

[denelon]

Would you mind running winget upgrade foobar2000 --verbose-logs and sharing the output, or submitting feedback via https://aka.ms/winget-feedback so we can get the logs? I'm wondering if we're detecting a false positive from an installer launching a child process or if something else is happening.

[Trenly]

Just want to add in that I'm not seeing this behavior in the sandbox using client v1.2.10271

Windows PowerShell
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PS C:\Windows\system32> winget source remove msstore
Removing source: msstore...
Done
PS C:\Windows\system32> winget install foobar2000 -v 1.6.7
Found foobar2000 [PeterPawlowski.foobar2000] Version 1.6.7
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.foobar2000.org/files/foobar2000_v1.6.7.exe
  ██████████████████████████████  4.55 MB / 4.55 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed
PS C:\Windows\system32> winget list foobar
Name       Id                        Version Available
------------------------------------------------------
foobar2000 PeterPawlowski.foobar2000 1.6.7   1.6.10
PS C:\Windows\system32> winget upgrade foobar2000 --verbose-logs
Found foobar2000 [PeterPawlowski.foobar2000] Version 1.6.10
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.foobar2000.org/files/foobar2000_v1.6.10.exe
  ██████████████████████████████  4.55 MB / 4.55 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed
PS C:\Windows\system32> winget list foobar
Name       Id                        Version
--------------------------------------------
foobar2000 PeterPawlowski.foobar2000 1.6.10

[weiss-d]

Looks like --verbose-logs doesn't change the output.

PS C:\Users\weiss-d> winget upgrade foobar2000 --verbose-logs
Found foobar2000 [PeterPawlowski.foobar2000] Version 1.6.10
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.foobar2000.org/files/foobar2000_v1.6.10.exe
  ██████████████████████████████  4.55 MB / 4.55 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

PS C:\Users\weiss-d> winget list foobar
Name       Id                        Version Available Source
-------------------------------------------------------------
foobar2000 PeterPawlowski.foobar2000 1.6.7   1.6.10    winget

I use genuine win10pro with the latest updates btw.

[weiss-d]

But how I could installed it in the first place without Administrator privileges then?

[denelon]

The installer may not have the logic to warn the user. I've seen that behavior with several different packages. The installer may also not trigger the UAC to get administrative permission even if it can detect it as well. There are many variables at play.

[denelon]

You may see different behavior if you pass "--interactive" to get an interactive install. Sometimes the silent install flags bypass extra behavior for installers that has been built into the interactive mode.

[weiss-d]

@denelon thank you! Updating with --interactive flag did the job.