Repository navigation
[FEATURE REQUEST] Different treatment for packages with denied upgrades #1812
Description
Please confirm these before moving forward
- I have searched for my feature proposal and not found a work-in-progress/duplicate/resolved/discarded issue.
- This proposal is a completely new feature. If you want to suggest an improvement or an enhancement, please use this template
Describe the new feature
In scheme 1.6, the "deny" option was added to UpgradeBehavior to specify that WinGet shouldn't attempt to upgrade the package. It'd be nice if such packages weren't attempted by WingetUI to upgrade every day (such as an auto-skip along with it being pinned, perhaps?) along with a "skipped" icon being displayed for it.
Describe how this new feature could help users.
It would be helpful to automatically
Activity
marticliment commentedon Feb 23, 2024
I don't really undertstand what you mean. Could you please give an example?
aaronliu0130 commentedon Feb 23, 2024
Sorry, I meant schema 1.6.
For example, if I have an old version of https://github.com/PckgrBot/winget-pkgs/blob/master/manifests/d/Discord/Discord/1.0.9034/Discord.Discord.installer.yaml installed and do
winget upgrade Discord.Discord, winget will sayWingetUI reports that as an error during updating, and replaces the package's icon with a yellow circle that has something in it. I think Winget should automatically skip that version of the package, replace the package's icon with the skip icon, send an appropriate notification, and persist the bottom status bar for that package (even across reboots) until the package is at the latest version or the user dismisses it.
marticliment commentedon Feb 23, 2024
I see what you mean now. In my opinion, what I'd do is showing a custom error message, in the same way in which when a hash check fails or when the system requires a reboot the user gets warned about it, a custom error message explainig the issue could be shown, explaining to the user the situation and what should be done.
aaronfilarca commentedon Mar 8, 2024
Would be nice if WingetUI will "Skip this version" when it receives ANY kind of error during upgrades
aaronliu0130 commentedon Mar 8, 2024
I disagree. Errors usually need user intervention, and just ignoring it could make everything look up-to-date already
aaronfilarca commentedon Mar 8, 2024
What I mean is- WingetUI should not retry to upgrade it again without user intervention. Not "Skip this version", but something similar.
aaronliu0130 commentedon Mar 8, 2024
It might be environmental factors, such as having the application open, that can be eradicated on retry
marticliment commentedon Mar 8, 2024
I agree with Aaron Liu (@aaronliu0130) about this.