"Available" but "No applicable upgrade found"

[Swe-it]

Dell Commande Update (Dell.CommandUpdate.Universal) say "Available" when I run:

Winget.exe List "Dell.CommandUpdate.Universal"

But when I run:
Winget.exe Upgrade -e --id "Dell.CommandUpdate.Universal"
or
Winget.exe Install -e --id "Dell.CommandUpdate.Universal"

It say:
"No applicable upgrade found"

Can someone explain how is that?

[Trenly]

"Available" means that there is a newer version of the package in one of the sources. It doesn't guarantee that the newer package version is able to be installed on your machine. "No Applicable Upgrade" is the indicator that even though a newer version is available, one or more filters are causing the package to not be able to be installed on your system. There are a few reasons this could happen, such as a change in the MinumumOSVersion required for the package, a change in installer type (although I believe this has a separate message), a change in scope (if the package was originally installed in user scope, but the available update only specifies machine scope), even a locale specification could cause an update to be inapplicable.

The only way to understand why an upgrade is deemed inapplicable is to run winget upgrade with --verbose-logs and then to check the winget log file (location can be found in winget --info). At the bottom of the log there should be a short section which details out which installers are being checked and why they are deemed inapplicable

[Taudris]

I think there is a real problem here. The verbose log output is over 5MB and still manages to not contain any information about why the upgrade failed... At least, none that's obvious to an end user.

I haven't done anything unusual with my winget install. The only maybe weird thing I've done is installed Winget-AutoUpdate. I haven't dug around in the code for that project, but I'd assume it doesn't need to modify anything about winget to function; it should just be using the CLI as-is.

Console output for winget upgrade:

Name                                               Id                                Version       Available     Source
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(snip)
Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime - 7.0.1 (x86)    Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 7.0.1         7.0.4         winget
(snip)

Here's the end of the log file for this command: winget install --id Microsoft.DotNet.DesktopRuntime.7 --verbose-logs

(snip)
2023-04-06 02:12:49.022 [CLI ] Found installed package, converting to upgrade flow
2023-04-06 02:12:49.026 [SQL ] Preparing statement #2-17751: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM[main].[sqlite_master] WHERE [type] = ? AND [name] = ?
2023-04-06 02:12:49.026 [SQL ] Binding statement #2-17751: 1 => table
2023-04-06 02:12:49.026 [SQL ] Binding statement #2-17751: 2 => manifest_metadata
2023-04-06 02:12:49.026 [SQL ] Stepping statement #2-17751
2023-04-06 02:12:49.026 [SQL ] Statement #2-17751 has data
2023-04-06 02:12:49.026 [SQL ] Preparing statement #2-17752: SELECT [metadata], [value] FROM [manifest_metadata] WHERE [manifest] = ?
2023-04-06 02:12:49.026 [SQL ] Binding statement #2-17752: 1 => 82
2023-04-06 02:12:49.026 [SQL ] Stepping statement #2-17752
2023-04-06 02:12:49.026 [SQL ] Statement #2-17752 has data
2023-04-06 02:12:49.026 [SQL ] Stepping statement #2-17752
2023-04-06 02:12:49.026 [SQL ] Statement #2-17752 has data
2023-04-06 02:12:49.026 [SQL ] Stepping statement #2-17752
2023-04-06 02:12:49.026 [SQL ] Statement #2-17752 has data
2023-04-06 02:12:49.026 [SQL ] Stepping statement #2-17752
2023-04-06 02:12:49.026 [SQL ] Statement #2-17752 has data
2023-04-06 02:12:49.026 [SQL ] Stepping statement #2-17752
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Statement #2-17752 has data
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Stepping statement #2-17752
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Statement #2-17752 has completed
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Preparing statement #4-17753: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM[main].[sqlite_master] WHERE [type] = ? AND [name] = ?
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Binding statement #4-17753: 1 => table
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Binding statement #4-17753: 2 => manifest_metadata
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Stepping statement #4-17753
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Statement #4-17753 has data
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Preparing statement #4-17754: SELECT [metadata], [value] FROM [manifest_metadata] WHERE [manifest] = ?
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Binding statement #4-17754: 1 => 4
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Stepping statement #4-17754
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Statement #4-17754 has data
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Stepping statement #4-17754
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Statement #4-17754 has data
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Stepping statement #4-17754
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Statement #4-17754 has completed
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [CLI ] Market Filter created with market: US
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [CLI ] Locale Comparator created with Required Locales: [] , Preferred Locales: [en-US] , IsInstalledLocale: 0
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [CLI ] Architecture Comparator created with allowed architectures: [X64, X86, Neutral]
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Preparing statement #1-17755: SELECT [versions].[version], [channels].[channel] FROM [manifest] JOIN [versions] ON [manifest].[version] = [versions].[rowid] JOIN [channels] ON [manifest].[channel] = [channels].[rowid] WHERE [id] = ?
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Binding statement #1-17755: 1 => 1844
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Stepping statement #1-17755
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Statement #1-17755 has data
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Stepping statement #1-17755
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Statement #1-17755 has data
2023-04-06 02:12:49.027 [SQL ] Stepping statement #1-17755
2023-04-06 02:12:49.028 [SQL ] Statement #1-17755 has data
2023-04-06 02:12:49.028 [SQL ] Stepping statement #1-17755
2023-04-06 02:12:49.028 [SQL ] Statement #1-17755 has data
2023-04-06 02:12:49.028 [SQL ] Stepping statement #1-17755
2023-04-06 02:12:49.028 [SQL ] Statement #1-17755 has data
2023-04-06 02:12:49.028 [SQL ] Stepping statement #1-17755
2023-04-06 02:12:49.028 [SQL ] Statement #1-17755 has completed
2023-04-06 02:12:49.028 [CLI ] Terminating context: 0x8a15002b at D:\a\_work\1\s\external\pkg\src\AppInstallerCLICore\Workflows\UpdateFlow.cpp:87