Option for dry run

[davvolun]

Many package managers have an option to simply show me what is going to occur, for example winget upgrade --all --dry-run might show me what is going to happen without actually changing the packages on the disk; including, possibly, running some pre-check stuff like checking hashes or downloading the packages to prep them for install/upgrade. Basically a pre-flight check.

Note that this is similar to seeing available versions from winget list, but would be slightly different, effectively somewhere in between winget list to find packages with available upgrades and winget upgrade --all which would do the full upgrade.

[Trenly]

Note that this is similar to seeing available versions from winget list, but would be slightly different, effectively somewhere in between winget list to find packages with available upgrades and winget upgrade --all which would do the full upgrade.

Have you tried winget upgrade with no arguments?

[assarbad]

@Trenly thanks this just helped me! But I'll admit that I was also missing this option and it appears counterintuitive that it doesn't exist.

Also, for me it lists items which it doesn't attempt to upgrade during winget upgrade --all which is rather odd.