Eventual consistency: App Store GUI sometimes reports apps installed by mas as outdated but mas doesn't #387
Description
Your Environment
mas version: 1.8.2- macOS version (
system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType -detailLevel mini): 11.3.1 (20E241)
mas Install Method
brew install mas (homebrew-core)
Describe the Bug
The App Store GUI reports both Keynote (ID 409183694) & Apple Developer (ID 640199958) as outdated in both the Updates tab & in the Purchased tab of my account tab.
mas doesn't report them as outdated.
The App Store reports the new versions of Keynote as 11.0.1 & Developer as 9.0.1.
I already have these 2 versions installed: 11.0.1 (7030.1.2) & 9.0.1 (901.1.2), respectively.
Either:
- the App Store is incorrectly reporting outdated versions in 2 places
- the App Store somehow knows that the existing installations of these 2 apps must be reinstalled because they are corrupted
- Apple released new builds of these 2 apps with the same respective version numbers, which is causing mas to not recognize them as outdated
This has been going on for a few months, always with the then-latest stable mas & macOS…
To Reproduce
- Run
mas outdatedwhen Keynote 11.0.1 (7030.1.2) & Developer 9.0.1 (901.1.2) are installed. Maybe this problem won't occur on others' computers…