On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 at 14:39, Lana Deere wrote:

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 ---

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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?

If Alma's developers are using the same syntax reasons we did in CentOS, then the changes are usually either trademark related (removing/changing a Red Hat trademark to an Alma one), or a minor change that was needed to make a build happen. These should be visible via the upstream Alma git or from the src.rpm.

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

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

That looks like something got missed somehow.

but not AlmaLinux. Conversely AlmaLinux has < plotnetcfg-0.4.1-18.el9.x86_64.rpm

huh I checked a copy of RHEL packages I have access to and it shows that it is in RHEL. rhel-9-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms/Packages/p/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)

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