Authoring Manifest entry on how to update existing manifests

[ericoporto]

https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/blob/master/AUTHORING_MANIFESTS.md

Someone was updating and then stopped updating the Adventure Game Studio package here: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests/a/AGSProjectTeam/AdventureGameStudio

I looked briefly about updating but the repository is huge and I have no idea how to update a package when a manifest already exists, it looks like it's just the download links, incrementing the version number and updating the sha256 hash. These things look like they could be automated, but I could not find any way in the guide on authoring_manifest on how to create these updates.

[Trenly]

master/AUTHORING_MANIFESTS.md

Someone was updating and then stopped updating the Adventure Game Studio package here: master/manifests/a/AGSProjectTeam/AdventureGameStudio

I looked briefly about updating but the repository is huge and I have no idea how to update a package when a manifest already exists, it looks like it's just the download links, incrementing the version number and updating the sha256 hash. These things look like they could be automated, but I could not find any way in the guide on authoring_manifest on how to create these updates.

There are tools like winget-create which you can install with winget, configure your GitHub token, and then submit an update using wingetcreate update <packageId> -i (for interactive mode). There is also a PowerShell script in this repo specifically for creating and updating manifests - YamlCreate.ps1. With YamlCreate you can just create a fork of the repo, clone it to your local machine, and run the script - It will prompt for all the information it needs (Most likely a "Quick update" in this case).

[ericoporto]

I think winget-create is the way, as cloning this repository is something that I don't want to do.

[ericoporto]

Btw, I really don't want to do this, so if you could keep updating that package it would be nice - I am pushing on chocolatey.