When enabling bash completions eselect first links to the file in the cwd if it exists instead of the expected one /usr/share/bash-completion/ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. cd /etc 2. eselect bashcomp enable --global crontab Actual Results: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 13 16:36 /etc/bash_completion.d/crontab -> //etc/crontab Expected Results: Maybe eselect should inform the user what links where if it finds something in cwd before /usr/share/bash-completion. Or that you have to enter absolute path to use bash completions outside of /usr/share/bash-completion? Portage 2.1.9.42 (hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.11.3-r0, 2.6.37-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.37-gentoo-r4-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_X5650_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirror.web4u.cz/ ftp://ftp.lecl.net/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.twaren.net/Linux/Gentoo/ http://gentoo.supp.name/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.se.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acpi amd64 apache2 bacula-clientonly bash-completion bzip2 cli cracklib cron diskio gdbm gpm hardened isag logrotate logwatch lua mmx modules multilib mysql mysqli mysqlnd ncurses nptl nptlonly openmp optimization pam pcre perl pic png posix python readline snmp sse2 ssl strong-optimization subversion symlink syslog threads unicode xml zlib" APACHE2_MODULES="info cgi negotiation dav expires headers alias authn_file authz_host dir mime log_config rewrite vhost_alias status auth_basic auth_digest authn_file authz_user" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" ELIBC="glibc" KERNEL="linux" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" USERLAND="GNU" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
jer@bastiaan ~ $ touch crontab jer@bastiaan ~ $ eselect bashcomp enable crontab jer@bastiaan ~ $ ls .bash_completion.d/ -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 jer jer 18 Apr 13 18:04 crontab -> //home/jer/crontab lrwxrwxrwx 1 jer jer 30 Oct 26 20:44 cvs -> /usr/share/bash-completion/cvs lrwxrwxrwx 1 jer jer 33 Oct 26 20:43 gentoo -> /usr/share/bash-completion/gentoo lrwxrwxrwx 1 jer jer 34 Nov 1 05:02 repoman -> /usr/share/bash-completion/repoman lrwxrwxrwx 1 jer jer 30 Oct 26 20:43 ssh -> /usr/share/bash-completion/ssh Indeed!
Assigning to correct group. % qfile /usr/share/eselect/modules/bashcomp.eselect app-admin/eselect (/usr/share/eselect/modules/bashcomp.eselect)
By looking into bashcomp.eselect one can see that it's not a bug, but a feature: ;-) case "${bc}" in # absolute path /*) file=${ROOT}/${bc} ;; # relative path */*) file=${ROOT}/${PWD}/${bc} ;; # no path *) # CWD if [[ -f ${bc} ]] ; then file=${ROOT}/${PWD}/${bc} # assume /usr/share/bash-completion elif [[ -f ${EROOT}/usr/share/bash-completion/${bc} ]] ; then file=${EROOT}/usr/share/bash-completion/${bc} else ... fi ;; esac However, I wonder how useful this is. We could change search order in the "no path" case, or not search in cwd at all (the user could easily specify "foo" in cwd as "./foo").
Fixed in SVN (revision 830).
Fixed in eselect 1.2.17. Thank you for reporting this issue.
