ng update wants to update @angular/material in project that does not have it installed

[rubiesonthesky]

Command

update

Is this a regression?

• Yes, this behavior used to work in the previous version

The previous version in which this bug was not present was

19.1.6

Description

Running ng update offers update to @angular/material even though it is not installed to the project. The project has @angular/cdk and @angular/cdk-experimental installed.

    We analyzed your package.json, there are some packages to update:

      Name                                Version                  Command to update
     ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      @angular/cli                        19.1.6 -> 19.1.7         ng update @angular/cli
      @angular/core                       19.1.5 -> 19.1.6         ng update @angular/core
      @angular/material                   19.1.3 -> 19.1.4         ng update @angular/material

I think it should have @angular/cdk instead of material here.

For some reason, @angular/cdk-experimental is never listed in this list, even though you always need to update it same time as @angular/cdk.

Minimal Reproduction

ng update

Exception or Error

Your Environment

Angular CLI: 19.1.6
Node: 22.11.0
Package Manager: npm 11.0.0
OS: darwin arm64

Angular: 19.1.5
... animations, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... localize, platform-browser, platform-browser-dynamic, router

Package                         Version
---------------------------------------------------------
@angular-devkit/architect       0.1901.6
@angular-devkit/build-angular   19.1.6
@angular-devkit/core            19.1.6
@angular-devkit/schematics      19.1.6
@angular/cdk                    19.1.3
@angular/cdk-experimental       19.1.3
@angular/cli                    19.1.6
@schematics/angular             19.1.6
rxjs                            7.8.1
typescript                      5.7.3
zone.js                         0.15.0

Anything else relevant?

I'm not sure if this should have been reported here or in the components repository.

[alan-agius4]

There are two issues here:

1. The logs display @angular/material instead of @angular/cdk, likely due to the fallback behavior of the group names. I have a PR to address this here: fix(@angular/cli): prefer installed package as fallback when listing package groups #29629

2. The package @angular/cdk-experimental is missing from the list. Technically, it should not be listed, similar to how packages like @angular/core and @angular/forms are not explicitly shown. This is because the update command targets a group of packages. However, in this case, @angular/cdk-experimental is not included in any group, which will cause the update to fail. PR here: build: add missing packageGroup fields and packages in package.json components#30486