Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 2233
xntp spec file does not create a file
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:49 EDT
/root]# rpm -V xntp3 missing /etc/ntp/step-tickers ... the file is 'manifested' and appears to be a 'config' class file -- although not so defiled in the config file. it needs to be -touched' to create it, and highlighted as a 'config' class file.
The file /etc/ntp/step-tickers contains the names of reference hosts that can be used by /etc/rc.d/init.d/xntpd to initially set the system clock. The file is already marked %ghost %config(missingok)
... and how does that fix that fact that rpm -V reports. This implies a problem [under that principal that a proper unix program runs silently if there is no problem], even if it IS to std-out? Do you want me to transfer this to RPM as initially suggested? ------------ [root@swampfox autorpm]# rpm -V xntp3 missing /etc/ntp/step-tickers [root@swampfox autorpm]# rpm -V xntp3 > /dev/null [root@swampfox autorpm]# rpm -V xntp3 2> /dev/null missing /etc/ntp/step-tickers [root@swampfox autorpm]#
This "bug" revolves around the interpretation of the word missing and how that should be implemented in rpm and has nothing to do with xntp3. There is already a best effort to package xntp3 to take into account that the file is a configuration file that is used by the package but is not part of the package.
*** Bug 3950 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** It seems that the file /etc/ntp/step-tickers is missing from the rpm package. I verified this: rpm -Vp xntp3-5.93-12 missing /etc/ntp/step-tickers The result was the same for the file from the CD and one of the download mirrors. Wally Taylor