[Package Issue]: Discord.Discord requires explicit targeting and upgrade fails with "Installer hash does not match"

[lackovic]

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• I have not been informed if the issue is resolved in a preview version of the winget client.

Category of the issue

Installation issue.

Brief description of your issue

Discord upgrade with winget upgrade -h --all fails because it requires a explicit targeting.
Upgrading with explicit targeting fails with "Installer hash does not match"

Steps to reproduce

Run winget upgrade -h --all, then run winget upgrade -h Discord.Discord.

Actual behavior

After the first command the upgrade is not executed and I get the following message:

The following packages have an upgrade available, but require explicit targeting for upgrade:
Name    Id              Version  Available Source
-------------------------------------------------
Discord Discord.Discord 1.0.9012 1.0.9030  winget

After the second command the upgrade is not executed and I get the following error:

Found Discord [Discord.Discord] Version 1.0.9030
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://discord.com/api/downloads/distributions/app/installers/latest?channel=stable&platform=win&arch=x86
  ██████████████████████████████  91.7 MB / 91.7 MB
Installer hash does not match; this cannot be overridden when running as admin

Expected behavior

The upgrade succeeds after the first command, or at least after the second.

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

Screenshots and Logs

WinGet-2024-01-29-11-47-13.285.log
WinGet-2024-01-29-11-47-20.241.log

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[lackovic]

Discord is not running while doing the upgrade.

[lackovic]

Can somebody explain or point to a page that explains why some apps require explicit targeting?

[kumarchandresh]

Direct install also failed

❯ winget install --source winget --scope user --exact --id Discord.Discord
Found Discord [Discord.Discord] Version 1.0.9030
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://discord.com/api/downloads/distributions/app/installers/latest?channel=stable&platform=win&arch=x86
  ██████████████████████████████  91.7 MB / 91.7 MB
Installer hash does not match.

[stephengillie]

Can somebody explain or point to a page that explains why some apps require explicit targeting?

This might be through pinning.

Use the --include-pinned argument with winget upgrade --all to include any pinned packages.

[Exorcism0666]

@PckgrBot, there was already a pull request. #136871 (remove old version + adding x64)

[PckgrBot]

@PckgrBot, there was already a pull request. #136871 (remove old version + adding x64)

Apologies, I didn't see yours. I did try to add x64 in and the link wasn't working. Mayeb I had the wrong one?

[lackovic]

This might be through pinning.

I don't have any pins:

> winget pin list
There are no pins configured.

Upgrading with explicit targeting works now:

> winget upgrade -h Discord.Discord
Found Discord [Discord.Discord] Version 1.0.9031
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://dl.discordapp.net/distro/app/stable/win/x86/1.0.9031/DiscordSetup.exe
  ██████████████████████████████  91.7 MB / 91.7 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

[Showfom]

Can not upgrade Discord.Discord now:

> winget upgrade -h Discord.Discord
The package cannot be upgraded using winget. Please use the method provided by the publisher for upgrading this package.

[sba923]

Discord has auto-updated itself from 1.0.9034 to 1.0.9035, yet winget list discord reports this:

PS> winget list discord
Name    Id              Version  Available Source
-------------------------------------------------
Discord Discord.Discord 1.0.9034 1.0.9035  winget

[ratheader]

Obviously they don't want to keep their installation package compatible with winget. So why don't they take themselves out of it? It's annoying to have the updates displayed in Winget but not be able to run them. Those at Discord might find that funny. I think it sucks.

[tessharp]

Could it be that all of the Discord packages were marked in the manifest with the flag: UpgradeBehavior: deny? I tried to look into why these changes were made by @Trenly but unfortunately can't get any details on why this behavior was configured.

Edit: My gut feel is that apps that requires "approval" of Terms of Service after install, are not included in winget. This happened to VMware Workstation a while back IIRC (it has been added ever since... but it's a bit confusing ngl)

[Trenly]

Could it be that all of the Discord packages were marked in the manifest with the flag: UpgradeBehavior: deny? I tried to look into why these changes were made by @Trenly but unfortunately can't get any details on why this behavior was configured.

Edit: My gut feel is that apps that requires "approval" of Terms of Service after install, are not included in winget. This happened to VMware Workstation a while back IIRC (it has been added ever since... but it's a bit confusing ngl)

No, that isn’t the issue. The deny behavior was set because Discord has its own auto updater and the updater doesn’t write the new version to registry; attenpting to update Discord using winget would re-install and erase user settings

[anonymouswhac]

The package cannot be upgraded using winget. Please use the method provided by the publisher for upgrading this package.
Process Exit Code : -1978334956
Process End Time : 2024/5/14 0:09:27

[seangibbz]

This issue is due to poorly-configured installer manifests using the dynamic latest URL, as opposed to a static version-specific URL.

i.e. : https://dl.discordapp.net/distro/app/stable/win/x86/1.0.9030/DiscordSetup.exe for version 1.0.9030

This appears to have been fixed with the current-version manifests.

[stephengillie]

Since the above PRs have been merged, I'll assume that this Issue is complete. If this is in error, please @ me and I'll reopen.

[crazyuploader]

Still getting the error @stephengillie

⮞  winget upgrade
No installed package found matching input criteria.

The following packages have an upgrade available, but require explicit targeting for upgrade:
Name    Id              Version  Available Source
-------------------------------------------------
Discord Discord.Discord 1.0.9160 1.0.9161  winget

⮞  winget upgrade Discord.Discord
The package cannot be upgraded using winget. Please use the method provided by the publisher for upgrading this package.

[Showfom]

Still getting the error @stephengillie

⮞  winget upgrade
No installed package found matching input criteria.

The following packages have an upgrade available, but require explicit targeting for upgrade:
Name    Id              Version  Available Source
-------------------------------------------------
Discord Discord.Discord 1.0.9160 1.0.9161  winget

⮞  winget upgrade Discord.Discord
The package cannot be upgraded using winget. Please use the method provided by the publisher for upgrading this package.

Yes same here. I have to use winget uninstall Discord.Discord and then winget install Discord.Discord for upgrading Discord.

[woctezuma]

I have found out about this issue after installing UniGetUI to update my softwares with winget, and the only software which had an issue updating was Discord.

I wonder if this could be due to the installation of plugins, such as Vencord, I have not checked with a vanilla Discord installation.

Meanwhile, uninstalling then installing Discord worked to update the software. I had to install Vencord again afterwards.