On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 12:56 PM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 12:53 PM Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I was talking to a software vendor about there install instructions using yum instead of dnf for EL 8 and he took the feedback back to the development team but the response was that dnf was "going away" in EL 9...
> >
> > Did I miss something?
dnf is not going away. It remains the package management solution for
RHEL 8 and RHEL 9. You can find a version for RHEL 7 in the Extras
channel.
> RHEL product folks hate the name "DNF", so they always call it "YUM
> powered by DNF technology". Consequently, the documentation uses "yum"
> instead of "dnf", even if it's the same thing ("yum" is a symlink to
> "dnf").
That's not an accurate representation. From the 9 Beta release notes:
"3.4. Package management with YUM/DNF
Throughout this document, YUM and DNF can be used interchangeably.
In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, software installation is ensured by
DNF. Red Hat continues to support the usage of the yum term for
consistency with previous major versions of RHEL. If you type dnf
instead of yum, the command works as expected because both are aliases
for compatibility.
Although RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 are based on DNF, they are compatible with
YUM used in RHEL 7."
Further RHEL 9 documentation will center around the 'dnf' moniker,
eventually transitioning away from yum.
josh
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