diff --git a/.gitlab-ci/fedora-install.sh b/.gitlab-ci/fedora-install.sh
index 3bd4698366..65e0219921 100755
--- a/.gitlab-ci/fedora-install.sh
+++ b/.gitlab-ci/fedora-install.sh
@@ -39,12 +39,12 @@ fi
 fi
 
 
-NM_NO_EXTRA=1 NM_INSTALL="yum install -y" ./contrib/fedora/REQUIRED_PACKAGES
-yum install -y glibc-langpack-pl ccache clang
+NM_NO_EXTRA=1 ./contrib/fedora/REQUIRED_PACKAGES
+dnf install -y glibc-langpack-pl ccache clang
 
 # containers have "tsflags=nodocs" in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf. We need /usr/shared/gtk-doc/html
 # to generate proper documentation.
-yum reinstall -y --setopt='tsflags=' glib2-doc
+dnf reinstall -y --setopt='tsflags=' glib2-doc
 
 if [ $IS_FEDORA = 1 ]; then
     FEDORA_VERSION=$(cat /etc/os-release | grep '^VERSION_ID=' | sed s\/"VERSION_ID="\/\/)
diff --git a/contrib/fedora/REQUIRED_PACKAGES b/contrib/fedora/REQUIRED_PACKAGES
index d47e60980a..c2832875c7 100755
--- a/contrib/fedora/REQUIRED_PACKAGES
+++ b/contrib/fedora/REQUIRED_PACKAGES
@@ -4,16 +4,13 @@
 # NetworkManager on Fedora and RHEL.
 #
 # Not all of these packages are available, depending
-# on your distribution/release. But yum will happily
-# skip them.
+# on your distribution/release. But the script will skip them.
 #
 # Not all of these packages are strictly speaking necessary.
 # This is a generous list of related packages.
 
 set -xe
 
-DNF="$(command -v dnf &>/dev/null && echo dnf || echo yum)"
-
 SUDO=
 [ "$EUID" -eq 0 ] || SUDO=sudo
 
@@ -21,7 +18,7 @@ install() {
     if [ "$NM_INSTALL" != "" ]; then
         $NM_INSTALL "$@"
     else
-        $SUDO "$DNF" install -y "$@"
+        $SUDO dnf install -y "$@"
     fi
 }