Bad NTP in Fedora repository?

[Bob Arendt]

When I upgraded, it appears that the ntp daemon (ntpd) now runs as
user "ntp".  My old /etc/ntp.conf referenced a /etc/ntp.drift file that ntp
now couldn't write - ntp also wants to create a temp file in the driftfile directory.
The new redhat scheme has the driftfile at /var/lib/ntp/drift, with the
directory and file belonging to user ntp, group ntp.
-Bob Arendt

Mike Klinke wrote:
> Unless I'm reading "man rpm"  incorrectly,  does it seem there's a 
> problem with the ntp rpm in the Fedora repository?
> 
> Regards,  Mike Klinke
> 
> 
> Changed /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date:
> forceInstall=1
> 
> 
> 22:20:55 # up2date --nox -u
>  .........
> Name   Version      Rel
> ------------------------------------
> ntp   4.1.2          5          i386
> 
> Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
> ########################################
> ntp-4.1.2-5.i386.rpm:       ############# Done.
> Preparing ############################## [100%]
> Installing... 1:ntp #################### [100%]
> 
> 22:22:35 # rpm -qa | grep ntp-
> ntp-4.1.2-5
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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.
> 
> Regards,  Mike Klinke
> 
> 
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