Winget not recognising an update is installed, and installs it every time I run update

[mejobloggs-cw]

Brief description of your issue

Currently every time I run winget update --all, it will upgrade Microsoft.DotNet.HostingBundle.8 to Version 8.0.1

It appears to successfully install, but next time I run winget update --all it installs again.

In the past I have had the same issue with different packages. My resolution was to uninstall the package, then install again via winget (originally they were installed from a downloaded exe)

I tried the same strategory this time but it didn't work. Still tries to install HostingBundle Version 8.0.1 each time.

How can I resolve this?

Steps to reproduce

• Have Microsoft.DotNet.HostingBundle.8 Version 8.0 installed.
• Run winget update --all

Expected behavior

Expected it to update just once

Actual behavior

It updates every time

Environment

Windows Package Manager v1.6.3482
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Windows: Windows.Desktop v10.0.22631.3085
System Architecture: X64
Package: Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller v1.21.3482.0

Winget Directories
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Logs                               %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Diag…
User Settings                      %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\sett…
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                %USERPROFILE%\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
--------------------------------------------------
LocalManifestFiles                        Disabled
BypassCertificatePinningForMicrosoftStore Disabled
InstallerHashOverride                     Disabled
LocalArchiveMalwareScanOverride           Disabled

[RelxOff]

good

[Trenly]

In the past I have had the same issue with different packages. My resolution was to uninstall the package, then install again via winget (originally they were installed from a downloaded exe)

Are you able to provide the output of winget list '.NET' as well as the log files from winget upgrade --all --verbose?

[libinweng]

Yes, same problem here.

[mejobloggs-cw]

Are you able to provide the output of winget list '.NET' as well as the log files from winget upgrade --all --verbose?

Attached... hopefully

I wonder if there's installation conflicts between Visual Studio Installer and Winget?

WinGet-Microsoft.DotNet.HostingBundle.8.8.0.1-2024-01-30-11-08-36.767.log
WingetListDotNet.txt

[mejobloggs-cw]

Are those logs enough to help? Is there any more info I can provide?

[mejobloggs-cw]

This problem is increasing every new DotNet update it seems.

Please can this have some attention because it makes WinGet basically unusable for me.

I either have to individually update just the packages I want to update, or suffer reinstalling packages over and over

Now every time I run winget upgrade -all, the folowing packages repeatedly update

Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.6
Microsoft.VCRedist.2015+.x64
Microsoft.DotNet.HostingBundle.8
Microsoft.DotNet.AspNetCore.6
Microsoft.DotNet.HostingBundle.8

Here is a new collection of logs. It says filesize too big (from a single winget -upgrade) so I have zipped them
WinGet-Logs.zip

[Trenly]

It seems this is related to the many https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3AArea-Matching issues that are being tracked at the moment

[mejobloggs-cw]

There's definitely a conflict with Visual Studio / Visual Studio Installer somehow.

I just used VS Installer to apply this weeks VS updates, and now Winget situation has improved. I only have 1 package that keeps reinstalling
WinGet-More-Logs.zip

My actions:

• Update via VS Installer
• Winget upgrade --all (still tried to upgrade all previously mentioned packages)
• Winget upgrade --all (this time it seems like the first winget ugprade worked correctly, and there was only Microsoft.VCRedist.2015+.x64 left
• Winget upgrade --all (Microsoft.VCRedist.2015+.x64 still attempting to install each time)