Dnf query for file ownership sometimes fails to find association

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How do I find ownership of not-yet-installed files a better way?

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I’m not sure. I always use dnf whatprovides <file spec>, which does work in this case:

$ sudo dnf whatprovides "/usr/share/wayland-sessions/weston.desktop"
Last metadata expiration check: 0:02:29 ago on Wed 15 May 2024 09:53:10 BST.
weston-session-13.0.0-5.fc40.noarch : Weston desktop session
Repo        : fedora
Matched from:
Filename    : /usr/share/wayland-sessions/weston.desktop

I’d file it as a bug because the man page suggests that repoquery should also work, unless there’s a nuance there that we’re missing :thinking:

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Removed wayland