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#1 2009-12-11 00:12:36

tekknokrat
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package containing startx

I know I had this issue some time ago but can't remember exactly...
I have setup Xorg & xfce4 running perfectly on my damn old laptop. I use this thing only for music and video.
Thatswhy I decide to configure it for autologin so that its available without hazzles.
I have all the config that is necessary. Only thing missing is startx.
Which package can I find it?

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#2 2009-12-11 00:27:24

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Re: package containing startx

xorg-xinit

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#3 2009-12-11 00:28:12

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Re: package containing startx

It's owned by "xorg-xinit" on my system.


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#4 2009-12-11 00:53:12

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Re: package containing startx

You can use pkgfile to know which package own a file. pkgfile is bundled in the pkgtools package

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#5 2009-12-11 01:34:21

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Re: package containing startx

@kazuo
Wouldn't that be the same thing as "pacman -Qo $(which startx)", or does pkgfile actually query a central database to determine which package owns a file?

Considering comments that I've seen on this forum to the effect that there is no such thing, I suspect that it's the former, which assumes that the package is already installed.


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#6 2009-12-11 01:59:42

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Re: package containing startx

Nope pkgfile maintains a database of which packages own which file even when not installed, which is updated every hour by cron by default.  It's quite useful actually.

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#7 2009-12-11 02:49:21

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Re: package containing startx

tavianator wrote:

Nope pkgfile maintains a database of which packages own which file even when not installed, which is updated every hour by cron by default.  It's quite useful actually.

I thought it was updated daily...   Anyway, the list of files for each repo is available on the mirrors.  Named something like <repo>.files.tar.gz.  pkgfile (in the pkgtools package) uses them.

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#8 2009-12-11 03:13:09

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Re: package containing startx

That will be useful at some point. I actually played around with a script to do the same thing but I never thought the devs would actually implement the necessary server-side script to build the file list. Every single time I've seen someone ask for a similar feature in pacman, someone went off on a "this isn't Ubuntu" tangent.

If there isn't something to do it already, I might try to write a local database recovery script which uses that to determine which packages are most likely installed.


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#9 2009-12-11 03:57:25

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Re: package containing startx

Allan: Oops yeah, daily.

Xyne:  That would be pretty cool actually.  I've never lost a DB but I can see it happening.

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#10 2009-12-11 06:09:34

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Re: package containing startx

tavianator wrote:

Xyne:  That would be pretty cool actually.  I've never lost a DB but I can see it happening.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=86562


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#11 2009-12-11 13:05:13

tekknokrat
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Re: package containing startx

thx for the fast responses. xorg-xinit seems not to be a default dependency for xorg-server. I also setup pkgfile, nice hint.

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