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Update-WinGetPackage default behavior #3231
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The default behavior of the Update-WingetPackage looks wrong. It should not try to upgrade all packages but only the ones with update available. So it should be a a syntactic sugar for Get-WinGetPackage | Where-Object -Property IsUpdateAvailable -eq $true | ForEach-Object { Update-WinGetPackage -Id $_.ID } , not Get-WinGetPackage | ForEach-Object { Update-WinGetPackage -Id $_.ID }. Currently it gets all the packages and then throws an exception.
P.S: Excuse me for the bad redaction.
Originally posted by Zafer Balkan (@zbalkan) in #3182 (comment)
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robinmalik commentedon Sep 20, 2023
I'll add to this re: "default behaviour". We should have an output that displays what has been updated (i.e. the name/id of the package in one of the columns). Currently it's like this:
dodexahedron commentedon Jun 7, 2024
IMO it's actually better behavior than the winget cli itself has, as assuming * is how other package managers behave, so the existing behavior is something of a consistency win.
But being able to use at least the common properties as params to the Update-WinGetPackage cmtlet itself would also be excellent and avoid the need to pipe it, which is clunky.
Nobody pipes
apt list --upgradabletogrepand feeds the output toapt install, for example.