poetry update pkg_a not update anything

[Albert-Gao]

Cost 10min to figure out how to update a package.

basically, i found the outdated packages by running this.

poetry show --latest --outdated

then i use this

poetry update pkg_a

say pkg_a is an outdated package, but the runtime shows No dependencies to install or update

Looks like a bug,

the only way to fix this bug is to manually update the version in the pyproject.toml

what am i missing here? thanks. :)

[radoering]

poetry update only updates the lockfile according to the constraints in the pyproject.toml. Try poetry add pkg_a@latest.

[Albert-Gao]

Thanks, now I understand. it feels a bit confusing TBH 😅