Bug 476758 – Systemd guide should suggest people to enable systemctl bash-completion

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pacho Ramos 2013-07-13 20:28:44 UTC]

From my point of view, bash-completion for systemctl can be useful for showing available unit files without needing to review directory directly. Not sure about other systemd related completions :/



Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2013-07-13 20:30:44 UTC]

I have personally enabled all:
# equery files systemd|grep bash-compl
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/hostnamectl
/usr/share/bash-completion/journalctl
/usr/share/bash-completion/localectl
/usr/share/bash-completion/loginctl
/usr/share/bash-completion/systemctl
/usr/share/bash-completion/systemd-analyze
/usr/share/bash-completion/systemd-coredumpctl
/usr/share/bash-completion/timedatectl
/usr/share/bash-completion/udevadm

[Comment 2 Mike Gilbert 2013-07-13 20:31:09 UTC]

Sounds good.

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2013-07-15 20:45:08 UTC]

Do you agree if I suggest people to enable all of them with one command (optionally, of course) with something like:
for i in  $(equery files systemd | grep bash-completion/); do j=$(basename $i) && eselect bashcomp enable --global $j; done

?

[Comment 4 Michał Górny 2013-07-15 20:47:37 UTC]

I don't think that's really necessary. AFAIK soon bash-completion will have all files enabled by default, with opt-out behavior.

[Comment 5 Pacho Ramos 2013-07-15 21:20:00 UTC]

Looks like it is being handled in bug 472938... not sure how "soon" is that though :/

But thanks for noticing

[Comment 6 Alexander Tsoy 2013-07-16 06:32:08 UTC]

(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #5)

All neccessary things already in tree. Systemd ebuild should be updated

- --with-bashcompletiondir=/usr/share/bash-completion
+ --with-bashcompletiondir="$(get_bashcompdir)"

[Comment 7 Pacho Ramos 2013-07-20 09:42:10 UTC]

I guess the docs update is not needed then