From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 7 20:29:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C61D1528A for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 20:29:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id MAA24857; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:27:23 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <370C1A72.D5FD0B25@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 11:54:42 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ollivier Robert Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Separate boot partition? References: <19990407085435.M2142@lemis.com> <19990407080113.A4122@keltia.freenix.fr> <19990408001549.A8505@keltia.freenix.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ollivier Robert wrote: > > Speaking of HP again, another well-done things in HP-UX is their packaging > system (swinstall, swpackage and all that). It works well for the system, > packages and patches and makes building of packages very easy... > > I don't know the status of our future packaging system but HP's system is > very nice, especially compared to SVR4 horrible one. Again, I prefer AIX's one, though, in this case, I didn't have much experience with HP packaging system. (And, just in case you are wondering, yes, there are HP-UX features I prefer to the equivalent ones in AIX... :) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "nothing better than the ability to perform cunning linguistics" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message