[Yum] my first yum dependencies failure

[Cliff Kent]

All,

First, thanks very much to all involved with creating yum. I've had 
little trouble setting up private repositories for the Red Hat versions 
and some extras that we use here. Altogether a much better tool than I'm 
ever likely to need.

It was going so well that I'm puzzled by my first problem:

I wanted to take a look at abiword-2.0.0-2.i386.rpm, which is in 
rawhide. I created a special yum.conf that added rawhide at 
mirror.dulug.duke.edu to my regular "base, updates, custom" that were 
already working.

As root, I ran:

yum -c /root/yum/yum.conf.rawhide update abiword

This looked like it's working and got lots of headers from:

http://mirror.dulug.duke.edu/pub/yum-repository/redhat/rawhide/i386/

I was just starting to get confident, when yum failed dependencies with:

package gedit needs libaspell.so.10 (not provided)
package gedit needs libpspell_aspell.so.2 (not provided)
package gedit needs libpspell.so.4 (not provided)

That's puzzling, those three are supplied by:

aspell-0.33.7.1-21.i386.rpm
pspell-0.12.2-16.i386.rpm

Both RPMs are already installed.

With rpm, I'd ponder trashing the box. If the box was easy to recreate, 
I'd "--force" it on the next pass.

But, I see yum as a cleaner solution.

Is there an elegant solution to this? Or have I missed something?

Cliff Kent
Kent Engineering & Design