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