Re: st: adoupdate : problem with reported r(pkglist)

["Zurab Sajaia" <zsajaia@hotmail.com>]

I dont remember the exact reason of that problem with -adoupdate-
and -xml_tab-, but I do remember it being unrelated to -xml_tab-, just a
coincidence.

As for -adoupdate- itself, or more general (in case -adoupdate- r(pkglist)
wont work), my problem of making sure most recent versions of ado-s are
installed, does anyone have other ideas?

Thanks
Zurab


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clive Nicholas" <clivelists@googlemail.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: st: adoupdate : problem with reported r(pkglist)



> On 21/05/07, Zurab Sajaia <zsajaia@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My program uses other user-written programs and I'm thinking of finding
> > ways
> > how to check whether those packages are present/up-to-date.
> >
> > I use -adoupdate- but it seems to return not what's the help file says it
> > would :
> >
> > "adoupdate saves in r(pkglist) a space-separated list of package names
> > that
> > need updating (option update not specified) or that were updated (option
> > update specified)."
> >
> > if I write
> >
> > . adoupdate "somelistofarguments"
> >
> > r(pkglist) contains the exactly same list of arguments, even if packages
> > were not found or already up to date.
> >
> > Have anybody encountered the similar behavior?
> I've encountered a slight niggle with -adoupdate, update- that may be
> related to Zurab's issue; namely, that it keeps insisting that the
> same couple of SSC packages on my list have new versions ready to
> download, when in fact they don't: one of them is your very own
> -xml_tab-. It does it every time I execute -adoupdate-.
>
> --
> Clive Nicholas
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