rpm-5.4.10-22.i686 loops forever when installing ntpd-4.2.6p5-5.i686.rpm

[Jeffrey Johnson]

On Oct 21, 2012, at 5:04 PM, Elan Ruusamäe <glen at pld-linux.org> wrote:

>                           NO
> D: Conflicts: ntp < 4.2.0-3                                 NO
> ^CD: Exiting on signal(0x2) …

This report does nothing except document the existence.

There are too may possible causes to hazard a guess, including
a well documented difference in behavior detected by Mancoosi years
ago, and also identifying precisely what metadata (and
what rpm version was used to build all the packages).

Diagnosis starts with adding "debug" to the Conflictname
and Packages macro stanzas in /usr/lib/rpm/macro configuration
in orde to see exactly what database requests are being performed.

FYI: As a member @rpm5.org you *are* expected to know
how to diagnose problems with RPM. *shrug*

73 de Jeff