Bug 162671 – bash-completion.eclass should provide get_bashcompdir()

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Kir Kolyshkin 2007-01-18 15:47:50 UTC]

We use bash-completion eclass in sys-cluster/vzctl ebuild. It provides dobashcompletion() and bash-completion_pkg_postinst() which are very handy.

But now we have changed vzctl build system so we can now enable/disable bash_completion installation, as well as the directory where bash-completion scripts are installed. We still like to use bash-completion_pkg_postinst(), but we need a directory where to install bashcomp scripts to. To my mind, having /usr/share/bash-completion hardcoded in vzctl ebuild is not the best idea.

So, what could be useful in this case is function which will return bash-completion installation dir.

[Comment 1 Mike Kelly (RETIRED) 2007-05-06 23:10:30 UTC]

Well, eselect bashcomp is always going to look for these completion scripts in /usr/share/bash-completion unless the user sets EC_BASHCOMP_DIRS to override it. What exactly are you changing in vzctl?

[Comment 2 Kir Kolyshkin 2007-05-07 10:15:59 UTC]

vzctl's 'make install' installs its bashcomp file into /etc/bash_completion.d/. With Gentoo, I need to install it to /usr/share/bash-completion.

The problem here is I want bash-completion.eclass to provide that path (/usr/share/bash-completion) in some way (say in a variable), so I will not need to hardcode it in vzctl ebuild.

Hope that clarifies things.

[Comment 3 Kir Kolyshkin 2007-05-07 10:17:37 UTC]

So, instead of using dobashcompletion() from the vzctl.ebuild we want to use vzctl's own 'make install' -- and for that we need to know the path where we should install the bashcomp file to. If bash-completion eclass could provide this path (/usr/share/bash-completion) in some way that'd be great.

[Comment 4 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2009-02-27 05:55:26 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> So, instead of using dobashcompletion() from the vzctl.ebuild we want to use
> vzctl's own 'make install' -- and for that we need to know the path where we
> should install the bashcomp file to. If bash-completion eclass could provide
> this path (/usr/share/bash-completion) in some way that'd be great.
> 

Hi,
I'm new to the b-c package and just reviewing the open bugs. If you still would like this done and can provide a patch, I will review it. thanks

[Comment 5 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2011-02-09 05:12:51 UTC]

Closing just because of no feedback.