adoupdate output

[Sergiy Radyakin]

Dear All.

This is a minor issue, but it seems that the package numbers reported by adoupdate correspond to the full list of all packages installed on the user's machine, not the list of packages that is included into the adoupdate command:

Expected to see 1 here instead of 4, because only one package was requested for updates check.

Best, Sergiy Radyakin

[daniel klein]

I guess the number is fetched from stata.trk (more precisely, the first stata.trk found along the ado-path).

[William Lisowski]

Note that the number in square brackets is also reported by the

ado dir

command, which prefaces each entry with a sequence number within square brackets, thus

. ado dir sumdist

[14] package sumdist from http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s
      'SUMDIST': module to calculate summary statistics for income distributions

So the interpretation in post #1 as a count of the number of packages to update is incorrect.

The commands

ado dir
ado describe
ado uninstall

take as an argument

pkgid

where

        pkgid   is   name of a package
                or   a number in square brackets: [#]

thus

. ado describe [14]

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[14] package sumdist from http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s
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