Bad NTP in Fedora repository?

[Mike Klinke]

On Wednesday 19 November 2003 21:40, Bret Hughes wrote:

>
> Mike what happens if you use rpm to do the update to the fedora
> package?  If you already said it worked sorry if I  missed it.  I am
> having trouble with believeing that it is up2date that is causing the
> problem rather than rpm itself or a mis packaged rpm in some manner.
>
> If it is up2date I have even less confidence in it.
>
> Bret
>

Well, let's see....

========== NOT Changing ntp.conf =======
22:24:24 # ll /etc/ntp*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2875 Nov 17 22:20 
/etc/ntp.conf.bak
 
22:24:40 # rpm -ivh ntp-4.1.2-0.rc1.2.i386.rpm
Preparing...        ################## [100%]
   1:ntp                ################## [100%]

22:24:56 # rpm -Uvh ntp-4.1.2-5.i386.rpm
Preparing...         ################## [100%]
   1:ntp                 ################## [100%]

22:25:29 # rpm -qa | grep ntp-
ntp-4.1.2-5
==================================

========= Changing ntp.conf      ========
22:15:16 # ll /etc/ntp*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2875 Nov 17 22:20 
/etc/ntp.conf.bak
(Nothing up my sleeve ...)

22:15:23 # rpm -qa | grep ntp-
(Nothing up my other sleeve ....)

22:15:55 # rpm -ivh ntp-4.1.2-0.rc1.2.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ################ [100%]
   1:ntp                        ################ [100%]
(Install RH9 rpm for NTP)
 
22:17:08 # vi /etc/ntp.conf
(edit the RH9 ntp.conf to reflect correct server)

22:17:28 # rpm -Uvh ntp-4.1.2-5.i386.rpm
Preparing...      #################### [100%]
   1:ntp                   
 warning: /etc/ntp.conf created as /etc/ntp.conf.rpmnew
                    ###################### [100%]
error: %post(ntp-4.1.2-5) scriptlet failed, exit status 1

22:17:52 # rpm -qa | grep ntp-
ntp-4.1.2-0.rc1.2
ntp-4.1.2-5
===================================


Ay! The RPM, I think she's broke cap'n!

Regards,  Mike Klinke