xelatex flakiness on Fedora 32; workarounds

I tried to typeset (compile) a simple letter using the "oldletter" LateX package using xelatex on Fedora 32, and got these error messages (and no pdf output):

mktexfmt [INFO]: writing formats under /home/home/.texlive2019/texmf-var/web2c
mktexfmt [INFO]: --- remaking xelatex with xetex
mktexfmt [WARNING]: inifile xelatex.ini for xelatex/xetex not found.
mktexfmt [INFO]: Not selected formats: 1
mktexfmt [INFO]: Failed to build: 1 (xetex/xelatex)
mktexfmt [INFO]: Total formats: 2
mktexfmt [INFO]: exiting with status 1
I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'!

I tried various random crap from "answers" sites, and eventually a general "yum update" changed the situation.  Not fixed, but changed.  Now I got:

This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.999992 (TeX Live 2020) (preloaded format=xelatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./2021-11-25.ib.complaint.demand.tex
LaTeX2e <2020-02-02> patch level 5
L3 programming layer <2020-04-06>
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/letter.cls
Document Class: letter 2014/09/29 v1.2z Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/iftex/ifvtex.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/iftex/iftex.sty)))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xparse/xparse.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3kernel/expl3.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3backend/l3backend-xdvipdfmx.def)))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec-xetex.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.cfg)))kpathsea:make_tex: Invalid filename `Linux Libertine O', contains ' '
 
! Package fontspec Error: The font "Linux Libertine O" cannot be found.
 
Eventually, after installing the packages linux-libertine-fonts and linux-libertine-biolinum-fonts (maybe just the former would have been sufficient), xelatex started producing proper output.

This is a bug in Fedora.  Installing texlive-xetex, which gave xelatex, should give a working xelatex.

Also, how are you supposed to know which part of the string from rpm -qf is the package name, and which part is other information?

rpm -qf `which xelatex`
texlive-xetex-20200327-21.fc32.x86_64

$ rpm -qf `which xelatex` --queryformat '%{NAME}'
texlive-xetex

How do you know that of "texlive-xetex-20200327-21.fc32.x86_64", the package name is "texlive-xetex"?

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