[CentOS] ntp update version

Thu Dec 10 09:40:55 UTC 2009
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Ron Yorston <rmy at tigress.co.uk> wrote:
> I noticed that although I'd fetched the latest update to ntp from the
> mirror it wasn't being installed.
>
> It seems that the version numbers have got out of step.  According to
> the changelog the update that was released in August should have had
> the version number 4.2.0.a.20040617-8.el4_7.2, whereas in CentOS it's
> actually 4.2.0.a.20040617-8.el4_8.2.
>
> The changelog says the latest update is 4.2.0.a.20040617-8.el4_8.1,
> which is what CentOS has, but that's a lower version than the August
> update.

You may want to check upon this CentOS bug report:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4060

Akemi