From c18e5d65f60ee1095d5a2121a35b5b1681a8a8ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: smeyer <smeyer@00db46b3-68df-0310-9c12-caf00c1e9a41>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 14:43:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] log the package version to be installed

git-svn-id: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk@87548 00db46b3-68df-0310-9c12-caf00c1e9a41
---
 doc/NEWS.Rd                   | 2 +-
 src/library/tools/R/install.R | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/NEWS.Rd b/doc/NEWS.Rd
index f3da4a37ac..ff7b983f78 100644
--- a/doc/NEWS.Rd
+++ b/doc/NEWS.Rd
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@
 
   \subsection{PACKAGE INSTALLATION}{
     \itemize{
-      \item .
+      \item Source installs now report the package version in the log.
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/src/library/tools/R/install.R b/src/library/tools/R/install.R
index 7bf9c05f6c..b6889aaf3a 100644
--- a/src/library/tools/R/install.R
+++ b/src/library/tools/R/install.R
@@ -1019,6 +1019,11 @@ if(FALSE) {
 
         stars <- "**"
 
+        starsmsg(stars,
+                 sprintf("this is package %s version %s",
+                         sQuote(desc["Package"]),
+                         sQuote(desc["Version"])))
+
         res <- checkMD5sums(pkg_name, getwd())
         if(!is.na(res) && res) {
             starsmsg(stars,