Bad NTP in Fedora repository?

[Bob Arendt]

Mike Klinke wrote:
... snipped some ...
> 
> Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
> ########################################
> ntp-4.1.2-5.i386.rpm:       ############### Done.
> Preparing                         ############### [100%]
> Installing...
>    1:ntp                              ############### [100%]
> 
> 16:38:38 # ll ntp*
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2808 Nov 19 16:38 ntp.conf
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2875 Nov 17 22:20 ntp.conf.bak
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2798 Oct 29 11:07 ntp.conf.rpmnew
> 
> ntp:
> total 8
> -rw-r--r--    1 ntp      ntp             4 Feb 13  2003 drift
> -rw-------    1 root     root          266 Oct 29 11:07 keys
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct 29 11:07 step-tickers
> 
> 16:39:03 # rpm -qa | grep ntp-
> ntp-4.1.2-0.rc1.2
> ntp-4.1.2-5
> (Clearly!! There's something amiss here.)
> 
> Regards,  Mike Klinke

Yep, the dual install looks like an up2date problem.  I've never relied on up2date;
I mirror the RPM's and run RPM by hand, so I didn't see this problem.
One thing I did was merge the ntp.conf and ntp.conf.rpmnew to create
an updated ntp.conf file, picking up the new driftfile location.

Good luck    -Bob Arendt