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.
Ron
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Ron Yorston rmy@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
Akemi Yagi wrote:
You may want to check upon this CentOS bug report:
Which has been closed as 'no change required'. Some change is required.
As things stand my systems are on version 4.2.0.a.20040617-8.el4_8.2, the CentOS name for the August update. There's an October update called 4.2.0.a.20040617-8.el4_8.centos.2 which has the same changelog as the August one, and which wasn't installed because it has a lower version number.
Now there's a new update with version 4.2.0.a.20040617-8.el4_8.1 which has important fixes in it, but which is also not being installed because it has a lower number than the incorrectly versioned August update.
The CentoS version on the August update is wrong (it should have been 4.2.0.a.20040617-8.el4_7.2) and it's preventing the December update from being installed.
Ron
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