FC9 ntpdate dependencies problem?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:50:53 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Marco DELMASTRO
> <Marco.Delmastro at cern.ch> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > the last FC9 bugfix update is apparently not working because of a dependency
> > problem:
> >
> > [root at pcdelma ~]# yum update
> >
> > Resolving Dependencies
> > --> Running transaction check
> > ---> Package ntpdate.i386 0:4.2.4p5-2.fc9 set to be updated
> > --> Processing Dependency: ntpdate = 4.2.4p4-7.fc9 for package: ntp
> > --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> > ntp-4.2.4p4-7.fc9.i386 from installed has depsolving problems
> >  --> Missing Dependency: ntpdate = 4.2.4p4-7.fc9 is needed by package
> > ntp-4.2.4p4-7.fc9.i386 (installed)
> > Error: Missing Dependency: ntpdate = 4.2.4p4-7.fc9 is needed by package
> > ntp-4.2.4p4-7.fc9.i386 (installed)
> >
> > Any clue about how to solve this?
> >
> > Thanks, cheers, M.D.
> > --
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > Marco DELMASTRO
> 
> A newer version of ntp is available. Your repo mirror is probably a
> little behind. Run yum update again!

ntpdate is built from the ntp src.rpm, so both packages are updated at
once:

  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-8732

It would be strange if any mirror got only a partial set of the
ntp* binary rpms (and if the repo metadata covered only that
partial set).

Please check that you don't have any duplicate packages installed.
(package-cleanup --cleandupes)

In case of problems like this, please *always* show the relevant RPM/Yum
queries, such as: rpm -qa ntp\*  and  yum list ntp\*