Non-Homebrew-managed packages fail to display update prompts when all Homebrew packages are up-to-date

[aLIEz-xue]

What were you trying to do?

I was trying to consistently check and identify the names of available updates for both Homebrew-managed packages and non-Homebrew-managed packages, regardless of whether Homebrew-managed packages have pending updates. Specifically, after updating the Homebrew-managed package "doubao", I re-ran the update check to view the remaining packages that still needed updates.

What was the problem?

The update detection for non-Homebrew-managed packages behaves inconsistently, with a specific reproduction scenario:
When there are updates available for Homebrew-managed packages (e.g., before updating "doubao"), the names of non-Homebrew-managed packages requiring updates are displayed correctly.
After updating the Homebrew-managed package "doubao" (making all Homebrew-managed packages up-to-date), the names of non-Homebrew-managed packages are no longer displayed—even though these non-Homebrew packages have confirmed pending updates.

Error logs

No error logs are generated during this process.

App Version

1.7.3.1

App Acquisition

Self-Compiled

Final checklist

• This report is about the interface, and I included screenshots of the problem

[buresdv]

Do I understand correctly that:

• If there is at least one Homebrew-managed outdated package, the non-managed packages can be seen
• When there are no Homebrew-managed outdated packages, the non-managed packages cannot be seen anymore, and it says that there are no updates available?

[aLIEz-xue]

Do I understand correctly that:

• If there is at least one Homebrew-managed outdated package, the non-managed packages can be seen
• When there are no Homebrew-managed outdated packages, the non-managed packages cannot be seen anymore, and it says that there are no updates available?

Yes, your understanding is completely correct.
The exact behavior we’re seeing is:
When there’s at least one outdated Homebrew-managed package in the system, the names of non-Homebrew-managed packages with pending updates will show up normally in the update check results.
Once all Homebrew-managed packages are updated to their latest versions, the non-Homebrew-managed packages that still need updates will disappear from the results, and the system will even indicate that there are no available updates at all.

As you can see in the screenshot, 5 updates are actually detected. However, the package names are not displayed below; instead, it shows the message "所有受 Homebrew 管理的软件包均为最新版本". What this sentence means is "All Homebrew-managed packages are up-to-date."

[modeezie]

Big note: under the same conditions noted above for this ticket, a clarification must be made that I see in the OP's second screenshot: Cork WILL report that there are "unmanaged" updates, but will not show you WHAT they are unless there are also pending homebrew managed updates (as shown in screenshots above; the "5" in the second screenshot is the quantity of unmanaged apps that can be updated). This is also what happens for me, screenshot attached.

A big additional detail: the 2 "unmanaged" updates in my case are actually indeed homebrew managed apps, but are A/U (auto/self-update). Cork seems to identify A/U apps as "unmanaged" here. I am able to upgrade these using --greedy in the command line.

Edit: in my screenshot, if I click "Update" here, Cork will attempt to upgrade the apps that do not show, despite not being able to see what they are in the GUI.

Let me know if I can clarify further!

EDIT: I've discovered that the app downloaded from corkmac.app site (v1.7.3 (109)) does actually list these apps whether there are homebrew apps or not. It seems the self-compiled source has this and some other functions broken between the two versions!

[buresdv]

It seems like the version from the website is an older one, that I didn't replace properly. 1.7.3.1 has the login of displaying outdated packages completely rewritten to fix #572, and I think there's an incorrect check somewhere that I missed