Bug 724017

Summary: Missing dictionaries
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Shing-Shong Shei <shei>
Component: aspellAssignee: Peter Schiffer <pschiffe>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: i18n Engineering List <eng-i18n-bugs>
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Description Shing-Shong Shei 2011-07-21 17:48:31 UTC
Description of problem:
No dictionaries bundled with aspell packages

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
aspell-0.60.6-12.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
ispell -a

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
Error: No word lists can be found for the language "en_US".

Expected results:
# aspell -a
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.3)

Additional info:
Fix it by installing aspell-en from EPEL.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2011-07-21 18:19:20 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to
address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to
ask your support representative to propose this request, if
appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an
exception in the current release, please ask your support
representative.

Comment 3 Shing-Shong Shei 2011-07-21 18:28:29 UTC
Well, we have been using RHEL for years and it always bundled with dictionaries for aspell.  For example, on RHEL 5# yum list aspell\*
Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, dellsysid, downloadonly, fastestmirror, filter-data, keys, kmod, list-data, protect-packages,
              : protectbase, rhnplugin, security, tmprepo, verify, versionlock
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * dell-community: linux.dell.com
csci-local                                                                                                  | 1.1 kB     00:00     
http://linux.dell.com/repo/community//content/el5Client-i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.    
rhel-i386-client-5                                                                                          | 1.3 kB     00:00     
rhel-i386-client-supplementary-5                                                                            | 1.3 kB     00:00     
rhel-i386-client-workstation-5                                                                              | 1.3 kB     00:00     
rhn-tools-rhel-i386-client-5                                                                                | 1.1 kB     00:00     
0 packages excluded due to repository protections
Reading version lock configuration
Installed Packages
aspell.i386                                              12:0.60.3-7.1                                           installed         
aspell-devel.i386                                        12:0.60.3-7.1                                           installed         
aspell-en.i386                                           50:6.0-2.1                                              installed         
Available Packages
aspell-af.i386                                           50:0.50-4.2.2                                           rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-bg.i386                                           50:0.50-11.2.2                                          rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-br.i386                                           50:0.50-4.2.2                                           rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-ca.i386                                           50:0.50-4.2.2                                           rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-cs.i386                                           50:0.51-3.2.2                                           rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-cy.i386                                           50:0.50-4.2.2                                           rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-da.i386                                           50:0.50-12.2.2                                          rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-de.i386                                           50:0.50-11.2.2                                          rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-el.i386                                           50:0.50-4.2.2                                           rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-es.i386                                           50:0.50-13.2.2                                          rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-fo.i386                                           50:0.51-4.2.2                                           rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-fr.i386                                           50:0.50-9.2.2                                           rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-ga.i386                                           50:0.50-4.2.2                                           rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-gd.i386                                           50:0.50-4.2.2                                           rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-gl.i386                                           50:0.50-4.2.2                                           rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-hr.i386                                           50:0.51-4.2.2                                           rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-id.i386                                           50:0.50.1-4.2.2                                         rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-is.i386                                           50:0.51.1-2.2.2                                         rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-it.i386                                           50:0.53-4.2.1                                           rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-nl.i386                                           51:0.1e-2.el5                                           rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-no.i386                                           50:0.50.1-9.2.2                                         rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-pl.i386                                           50:0.51-5.2.2                                           rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-pt.i386                                           50:0.50-10.2.2                                          rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-ru.i386                                           50:0.99f7-2.2.2                                         rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-sl.i386                                           50:0.50-1.2.1                                           rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-sr.i386                                           50:0.02-1.2.1                                           rhel-i386-client-5
aspell-sv.i386                                           50:0.51-1.2.1                                           rhel-i386-client-5

But on RHEL 6, it's:

# yum list aspell\*
Loaded plugins: aliases, auto-update-debuginfo, changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, filter-data, fs-snapshot, kabi, keys, list-data,
              : merge-conf, post-transaction-actions, presto, priorities, product-id, protectbase, ps, refresh-packagekit, remove-with-
              : leaves, rhnplugin, rpm-warm-cache, security, show-leaves, subscription-manager, tmprepo, tsflags, upgrade-helper,
              : verify, versionlock
Updating Red Hat repositories.
Loading support for Red Hat kernel ABI
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
0 packages excluded due to repository protections
Installed Packages
aspell.x86_64                             12:0.60.6-12.el6                       @anaconda-RedHatEnterpriseLinux-201009221801.x86_64/6.0
aspell-devel.x86_64                       12:0.60.6-12.el6                       @rhel-x86_64-workstation-optional-6                    
aspell-en.x86_64                          50:6.0-11.el6                          @epel                                                  
Available Packages
aspell.i686                               12:0.60.6-12.el6                       rhel-x86_64-workstation-6                              
aspell-devel.i686                         12:0.60.6-12.el6                       rhel-x86_64-workstation-optional-6                     

An aspell without any bundled dictionaries is USELESS.  I view this as an oversight of RHEL 6.

Comment 4 Peter Schiffer 2011-11-02 13:26:29 UTC
aspell package was replaced by hunspell in RHEL 6. See:

# yum list hunspell\*

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 590700 ***