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

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

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