[sudo-users] Question about Prebuilt Packages for AIX 7.2 and above

[Todd C. Miller]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 12:16:03 +0100, Michal Kozlowski via sudo-users wrote:

> I was wonder if ask this questions on this group, or on sudo-workers.
> At first, I'd like to thank you (Tom, and community) for prebuild packages.
>
> I wonder why prebuilt packages for AIX 7.2 and above are distributed as 
> bff and rpm format.
> Is there any particular reason for this?

bff is the native AIX package format, but many people have a sudo
package installed from the AIX Freeware repo.  Having the rpm package
available makes it easier for those people to upgrade sudo.

> I also have question about numbering versions of prebuilt packages.
> Current stable release of sudo is 1.9.14p2.
> Prebuilt packages are:
> sudo.1.9.14.2.aix72.bff.gz 
> #https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/releases/download/SUDO_1_9_14p2/sudo.1.
> 9.14.2.aix72.bff.gz
> sudo-1.9.14-3.aix72.rpm 
> #https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/releases/download/SUDO_1_9_14p2/sudo-1.
> 9.14-3.aix72.rpm
>
> Based on url, I can see that they are both 1.9.14p2.
> Could you tell me please why rpm version is numbered 'p+1' (in this case 
> 3), and bff version is numbered 'p' (in this case 2)?

Most rpm packages start at version 1, hence the p+1 numbering.

 - todd