st: RE: Strange output from -adoupdate, update-

["Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

In Kit's absence, only Bill Gould is likely to 
have an authoritative answer here. Of the packages mentioned 
here, I noticed -mypkg-, which is my package, double sense, 
and a check showed that it is still there on SSC, but 
at http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/m. My guess is
that -adoupdate- is being absolutely literal about 
exact matches of websites and not indulging any 
difference between upper and lower case. However, 
the first test of this hypothesis springing from
a single fact fails because in the case of -omodel-
the URL seems exactly right. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Clive Nicholas
 
> Stata 9.2, Windows XP
> 
> Can anyone shed light on this?
> 
> . adoupdate, update
> (note: adoupdate updates user-written files; type -update- to 
> check for
> updates to official Stata)
> 
> Checking status of installed packages...
> 
>     [1] mypkg at http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/m:
>         package no longer available
> 
>     [2] omodel at http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/o:
>         package no longer available
> 
>     [3] gologit at http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/g:
>         package no longer available
> 
> [...]
> 
>    [96] xtabond2 at http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/x:
>         package no longer available
> 
>    [97] margeff at http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/m:
>         package no longer available
> 
>    [98] ivreg2 at http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/i:
>         package no longer available
> 
> Some of the packages I've installed onto my Stata do show up 
> as "installed
> package is up to date" (eg, -clfit, -collin- and -xtgraph-), 
> but this is
> obviously not right! I don't recall any post from Kit Baum to the list
> warning us about this whilst the SSC archive isn't updated over the
> festive season.

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