> On Mar 3, 2015, at 4:44 PM, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a way to influence the order in which (sub)ports are upgraded?

upgrade works in dependency order

> I'm testing the upgrade of my qt5-mac-devel port from Qt 5.4.0 to 5.4.1, with 
> almost all its subports installed. I've run into an error that can only be 
> explained by an inappropriate upgrading order: qt5-mac-devel-docs complains 
> about mixing library versions. It took me a while to understand, but this 
> error must stem from the fact that qt5-mac-devel-docs is upgraded before some 
> of the other subports. 
> 
> What possibilities do I have to postpone the docs subport to after all other 
> installed subports have been upgraded? Is there an accepted/advised naming 
> scheme one can use is the order is strictly determined by port names? (In 
> this case, I cannot simply let the docs subport depend on all other subports, 
> IMHO.)

why not? it sounds like there is a dependency there (on at least one of the 
library ports)

> Reporting this upstream will only lead to another confirmation that one 
> shouldn't build software with a previous version installed...

note that trace mode fixes this ;-)

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