[Bug?]: `yarn up -R "*"` not upgrading all packages

[KieranP]

Self-service

• I'd be willing to implement a fix

Describe the bug

I regularly run yarn upgrade-interactive and then yarn up -R "*", with the understanding that it would upgrade all dependencies to the latest versions matching the version constraints. It seems however that some are being missed. I need to run more up commands to catch them all, e.g. yarn up -R "@babel/*". My understanding is that "*" should catch them all.

In the repo below, note how @babel/runtime is resolved to 7.24.0. I than run yarn up -R "*" expecting it to update all dependencies, but it remains the same. I then run yarn up -R "@babel/*" and then it updates to 7.27.6 as expected. So "*" doesn't seem to pick up all dependencies.

To reproduce

package.json

{
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  "packageManager": "yarn@4.9.2",
  "devDependencies": {
    "@testing-library/dom": "^10.4.0"
  }
}

yarn.lock

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# Manual changes might be lost - proceed with caution!

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Environment

System:
    OS: macOS 15.5
    CPU: (12) arm64 Apple M3 Pro
  Binaries:
    Node: 22.15.1 - /private/var/folders/zl/tkptt8k15dd8410_1dh393dh0000gn/T/xfs-e652fe8d/node
    Yarn: 4.9.2 - /private/var/folders/zl/tkptt8k15dd8410_1dh393dh0000gn/T/xfs-e652fe8d/yarn
    npm: 10.9.2 - ~/.asdf/plugins/nodejs/shims/npm

Additional context

Found this post, which pointed me in the direction of "**", which appears to work: #3414 (comment)

Having to use double asterisk, when single asterisk is the universal "everything"/"wildcard" symbol only adds confusion. I highly recommend making it so that "*" will upgrade all packages.

At the very least, this issue needs to be documented on the docs page: https://yarnpkg.com/cli/up

[arcanis]

It's kind of a weird behaviour caused by using a glob engine. The * doesn't match / components (you have to use ** I think). Not ideal, I agree.