On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 16:44:09 +0100, Laurent Hofer <laurent.hofer@free.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Mark Thomas wrote:
> > What would be the prefered method of updating the perl-5.8 package on a
> > production machine? The machine (1.6.2) is running httpd, mail, ftp and
> > various other packages. In the past I've used 'make update', but is that
> > the best option!
> 
> you'd better have to use 'pkg_comp' and 'pkg_chk' to build packages in a
> chroot jail. Here is a link for an example:
> 
> http://www.bsdfreak.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=1
> 
> Personnaly, I'd rather prefer the 'bin-install' target as do this
> excellent update script from Gavan:
> 
> http://www.coolfactor.org/~gavan/update/
> 
> Furthermore, viewing the source of this script was very instructive for me.

Thanks Laurrent.

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