Yum says package "ntp" is not available which is not true
Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
d.jacobfeuerborn at conversis.de
Sat Aug 4 22:55:51 UTC 2007
Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 21:25:04 +0200
> Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <d.jacobfeuerborn at conversis.de> wrote:
>
>> [root at nexus etc]# rpm -ql ntp
>> package ntp is not installed
>> [root at nexus etc]# rpm -ql ntp-4.2.4p2-3.fc8
>> /etc/ntp
>> /etc/ntp.conf
>> /etc/ntp/crypto
>> /etc/ntp/crypto/pw
>> /etc/ntp/keys
>> ...
>
> Uh, try rpm -qi ntp-4.2.4p2-3.fc8
[root at nexus ~]# rpm -qi ntp-4.2.4p2-3.fc8
Name : ntp Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 4.2.4p2 Vendor: Fedora Project
Release : 3.fc8 Build Date: Wed 25 Jul 2007
08:49:28 PM CEST
...
> It sounds like your rpmdb entry got the whole n-v-r as the 'name' of
> the package.
What worries me is that removing the package and installing it again
results in the same behavior. Everything else seems to work fine it's just
this package that is acting weird.
Regards,
Dennis
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