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.

Regards.
-- 
Laurent Hofer, Ayoros
mailto: laurent.hofer@free.fr