[TAG] Re: Fedora questions

[Pete Savage]

Mike Orr wrote:
> On 11/17/05, Mike Orr <sluggoster at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Is there an rpm incantation to tell which package a file belongs to?
> 
> 
> "yum provides gdmgreeter"
> 
man yum here, yields,

        * provides | whatprovides feature1 [feature2] [...]

man rpm yields,

   select-options
        [PACKAGE_NAME] [-a,--all] [-f,--file FILE]
        [-g,--group GROUP] {-p,--package PACKAGE_FILE]
        [--fileid MD5] [--hdrid SHA1] [--pkgid MD5] [--tid TID]
        [--querybynumber HDRNUM] [--triggeredby PACKAGE_NAME]
        [--whatprovides CAPABILITY] [--whatrequires CAPABILITY]

> I assume there's an rpm query option for this but I don't see it on the manpage.
> 
> 
>>I originally installed Fedora at 1600x1200 resolution but switched to
>>1280x1024, both in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and in "KDE Control Center :
>>Peripherals : Display".  My session resolution is fine but the login
>>manager (gdmgreeting) and KDE startup screen both are 1600x1200 with a
>>1280x1024 viewport so the main dialog is not centered and you have to
>>scroll down to get to the Restart and Shutdown buttons.  That's the
>>impetus for my first question; I need to know which package to
>>reinstall.
> 
> 
> I tried reinstalling gdm just now but it didn't help.  By the way, I
> also tried kdm earlier this week (/etc/sysconfig/desktop
> DISPLAYMANAGER="kde") and it has the same problem.  I looked around
> for a config file or state file containing "1600" but couldn't find
> it.
> 
> In order to reinstall gdm I had to do "yum remove gdm" and "yum
> install gdm".  The 'install', 'update', and 'upgrade' options alone
> would not reinstall a package that's the same version, and there's no
> 'reinstall' option.  I wasn't thrilled about that because there
> could've been a network outage or server outage after the package was
> removed, and it may be an essential package next time.
> 

Can you post up or include your xorg.conf?

> One other thing that's been bugging me.  Yum insists on resync'ing its
> cache with the repositories on every command.  I'd like it to resync
> only when I tell it to.  Any way to do this?  http_caching in
> /etc/yum.conf doesn't.  [1]
> 
> [1] Doesn't do this, that is.  (Thomas probably understood that right
> away, but I wouldn't.)

You can use the -C option
yum -C install elinks

> 
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