Re: Error in Pkg Update

[Thomas D. Dean]

On 01/30/2017 12:51 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Thomas D. Dean <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Looking at get_forge_pkg.m, line 72, it appears that setdiff(name,n) is
> > called and n is not defined.
> >
> > The 'else' clause at lines 70 thru 74 is meant to handle the situation where
> > name is not known to forge.  This should provide a hint for cases like
> >
> >     pkg -forge install symbolicz
> >
> > and should ask if you meant symbolic.
> >
> > I do not have a complete fix, but, the regexp at line 66 should read
> >
> > t=regexp (html, "<h3 class=""package_name"" id=""(\\w+)"">", "tokens");
> >
> > due to changes in http://packages.octave.org/packages.php.  Trying to pick
> > apart a web page to provide a hint is not reliable since the maintainer of
> > the web page can not know where is may be parsed.
> >
> > Since n is not defined at line 72, I don't know what was intended.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
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> We are trying to pump some effort on pkg this year, would you report
> this to the traker, if you haven't done that yet?
> Definitely update is something to improve considerably.
> Maybe that line was trying to remove package names that weren't in the
> online list.
I just updated to the latest hg.  The symptoms have changed.

Now, I get a proper message indicating the problem.  I get a warning 
that contains the name of the package octave was attempting to update.

Thanks to all for the fixes.

Sorry for the noise.