This was a bit of a pain to figure out: The kmod project convinced the bash-completion project they'd be maintaining completions themselves from now on in [1]. The intended way to get kmod completions, according to the commit in [2], is updating to >=sys-apps/kmod-35, which is hard for any user to comply with because as of this writing upstream haven't even yet released *v34*. The bash-completion project took kmod at their word and immediately marked its own kmod stuff as deprecated two months ago, and put out 2.15.0 since then. The Gentoo ebuild unconditionally deletes everything upstream's marked as deprecated in [3]. This was probably a sensible decision when it was added (prior to gentoo.git), but maybe it's time to re-examine why/if it's needed. Looking at Debian's equivalent package rules, they delete a few colliding filenames but not to this extent. [1]: https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/issues/1246 [2]: https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/commit/66a52b0e9bc1441f0758927da1a938d1d05857b6 [3]: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/eff4986d8bd2ee868edf18192102cc86262c1fdd/app-shells/bash-completion/bash-completion-9999.ebuild#L64
Feels like these kernel ones continue to be a nuisance :)
Created attachment 918313 [details, diff] do not dereference symlinks when listing modules Do not forget that modules completion is giving way too much results to be usable when deciding to cherry pick module completion. 1. /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build is not meant to be dereferenced -> overcompletion
FWIW the patch in bug 669128 to do that without invoking external binaries still works fine here.
Created attachment 918314 [details, diff] do not list modules twice with - and _ syntax 2. modprobe modules names are valid under two "syntaxes": isa_io or isa-io the bash completion lists them both: no matter name syntax, there is only one to load. ------- this small patchset allowed me to use bash completion for modprobe in a more effective way. Hope that app-shell/bash-completion maintainers will reintroduce modules completion to gentoo users, and even make it better using this patchset. P.S.: hiding already loaded modules from modprobe completion list would be nice too. I thought I did it, but no tracks of patch for this.
(In reply to Samuel Bauer from comment #2) use #669128 patch, it's way better :)
