I was comparing the packages in the AlmaLinux9 ISO with those in the RHEL 9 ISO and found differences. Most the naming differences are "alma" versions of the rpms, similar to these:

< libstdc++-devel-11.2.1-9.4.el9.alma.i686.rpm
< libstdc++-devel-11.2.1-9.4.el9.alma.x86_64.rpm

---
> libstdc++-devel-11.2.1-9.4.el9.i686.rpm
> libstdc++-devel-11.2.1-9.4.el9.x86_64.rpm

What does it mean when there is a package name difference like this?

There also seemed to be a package here or there which only existed in one of the releases. For example, RHEL has

> virt-who-1.31.22-1.el9_0.noarch.rpm

but not AlmaLinux. Conversely AlmaLinux has

< plotnetcfg-0.4.1-18.el9.x86_64.rpm

but not RHEL. Is there any conclusion I should draw from this?

.. Lana (lana.deere@gmail.com)