Yum says package "ntp" is not available which is not true

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

Tony Nelson wrote:
>> seth vidal wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 18:58 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> 
> [ Nothing that was quoted.]
> 
> 
>>> rpm -Va --nofiles --nomd5
>>>
>>> see what that outputs
>>> -sv
>>>
>>>
>> [root at nexus ~]# rpm -Va --nofiles --nomd5
>> Unsatisfied dependencies for system-config-date-1.9.3-2.fc8.noarch: ntp
>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.80003: line 850: IntegrateWithGNOME: command not found
>> [root at nexus ~]#
> 
> That checked some of the data in the RPM database files.  As the output
> from that is odd, the database files should be checked for integrity,
> hopefully with `rpm --verifydb`.  If problems are found, the RPM database
> can often be rebuilt if the Packages file is OK, with `rpm --rebuilddb`
> unless that has been removed also.

'rpm --verifydb' doesn't output anything at all which I presume means that 
the integrity of the database is ok.

Regards,
   Dennis