On 11/8/24 10:53 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 11/8/24 8:46 PM, home user via users wrote:
I thought that in the case of a file that IS owned by a package, rpm -qf was 
displaying the name of the owned file.  So I was expecting a file name to 
appear once, not 2000+ times!

It's now occurring to me that in the case of a file that is owned by a package, 
it's listing the name of the owning package, not the name of the owned file.  
Am I correct?

That is correct.

And now I see why you're confused.  It doesn't show the filename, only the 
package name, so you'll see an endless list of the package name, with possibly 
only a few filenames mixed in.


ok.
Once I've gone through another weekly patch without new problems (next 
Thursday, I hope), I'll tag this thread solved.

By the way, thank-you for reviving "wc -l" in my mind.  A long long time ago, 
in a galaxy far far away, I knew that command.  But it had faded away over the years.  Or 
maybe last month's run of remove-retired-packages removed that from my head, along with 
removing rkhunter, spectacle, musescore, chkrootkit, probably kde, and more that I 
haven't yet stumbled onto.

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