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

[Michal Kozlowski]

Hi Tod,

Thanks for the clarification.

Regards,
Michal

On 25/07/2023 14:52, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> 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