docs/172314: man page for portupgrade doesn't specify upgrade ordering

[Ronald F.Guilmette]

>Number:         172314
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       man page for portupgrade doesn't specify upgrade ordering
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 04 00:00:24 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ronald F. Guilmette
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE amd64
>Organization:
entr0py
>Environment:
System: 8.3-RELEASE amd64
>Description:

The man page for portupgrade fails to specify the ordering in which ports will
be upgraded, e.g. when the -a option is used or whenever two or port ports are
named on the command line.

(Perhaps naively, I would _guess_ that portupgrade might be intelligent enough
to order the set of ports it is asked to upgrade so that ports that are
depended upon are upgraded _before_ the ports that depend on them.  But is
portupgrade _actually_ this intelligent?  I hope so but I don't knwo and the
man page does not appear to say.)

>How-To-Repeat:

man portupgrade

>Fix:

Document whatever ordering portupgrade imposes upon its work.  If the order
of port upgrading is determined merely alphabetically (in the case of -a) or
based on the order in which ports to be upgraded are named on the command
line, then the man page should say that.
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