Bad NTP in Fedora repository?

[Ian Mortimer]

> Unless I'm reading "man rpm"  incorrectly,  does it seem there's a 
> problem with the ntp rpm in the Fedora repository?

You're reading the man page correctly but you're misinterpreting the output
of rpm -V.

> 22:22:55 # rpm -V ntp
> S.5....T c /etc/ntp.conf
> ^^^^^^^^ This says that the rpm has the wrong size, MD5SUM, and Time no?

No.  It says the configuration file /etc/ntp.conf has a different size,
md5sum and timestamp from the default.  That's normal for a configuration
file.
 
> If this verification string is indicating only a difference in 
> /etc/ntp.conf, why didn't it get replaced by specifying 
> "forceInstall=1" above?  No indication during the install was given to 
> indicate ntp.conf either was, or was not, being replaced.

rpm has a complex set of rules for upgrading configuration files.
If the file has been customized and the new default is the same as 
the old default the new file is not installed.  Otherwise it get's
installed with a .rpmnew extension or it gets installed in place of
the current one which gets saved with a .rpmsave extension.


-- 
Ian