port upgrade outdated order

[René J.V. Bertin]

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?
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> > 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.

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> > 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?