On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 09:29:50PM +0000, David Holland wrote: > My point, which you have ignored entirely, is that doing exactly this > during a scheduled downtime is currently the only remotely > sane/feasible way to update Perl. There is no way around this problem > without requiring extra pkgsrc installs and/or chroots. How is this different from what "make update" does other than that "make update" doesn't pretend that anything is usable in the mean time. > Again, it seems to me that you are working towards a world where extra > pkgsrc installs and/or chroots are mandatory, and I think that this is > seriously misguided. If you care about keeping your systems running, anything else is misguided. I certainly don't want to start compiling any non-trivial package during a maintainance window. Joerg