Bug 526702

Summary:	sys-apps/util-linux-2.25.2: missing bashcomp alias for 'su'
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	fturco, realnc
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	521146

Description Michał Górny archtester

2014-10-25 07:57:24 UTC

* Problems with installed bash completions were found:
 * 
 * 	su: missing alias (symlink) for completed command.
 * 
 * For more details on installing bash-completions, please see:
 * https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bash/Installing_completion_files

The Gentoo patch makes runuser completion work without su being enabled. However, the runuser completion file still enables completion for su which results in completion being randomly enabled or disabled.

Possible courses of action:

1. enable su, not sure how that interacts with BSD and stuff,

2. patch out 'complete -F _su_module su' from the completion file,

3. create the alias for 'su' (or just install both su+runuser as with --enable-su) and assume that util-linux installs completion for shadow.

Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester

2020-04-03 23:00:32 UTC

Please suppress the false positive.

util-linux ebuild contains this note:
    # Note:
    # Bash completion for "runuser" command is provided by same file which
    # would also provide bash completion for "su" command. However, we don't
    # use "su" command from this package.
    # This triggers a known QA warning which we ignore for now to magically
    # keep bash completion for "su" command which shadow package does not
    # provide.