On Tuesday March 03 2015 17:01:08 Daniel J. Luke wrote: > > Is there a way to influence the order in which (sub)ports are upgraded? > > upgrade works in dependency order
And for when the dependencies are identical? > > > 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. > > > > (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) There's a dependency on the main port, yes. But it shouldn't be necessary to install all the components moved to subports because they're not universally useful. And before someone wonders aloud: the library mismatch was in the documentation pertaining to the main port as far as I could tell. > > > 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 ;-) How so? _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
