[Fedora-packaging] Packaging clarification regarding bash-completion scripts

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:43:49 -0500, Michel wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > Michel Salim wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Ville Skyttä
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> FYI, apart from some general common sense packaging guidelines, I
> >>> wouldn't
> >>> invest too much time into this at the moment.  We're working on some
> >>> changes
> >>> to the bash completion dir structure and probably the mechanism with
> >>> which
> >>> individual completions are enabled upstream, it'll hopefully be included
> >>> in
> >>> not too distant future releases.
> >>>
> >> Ah, right. Thanks.
> >
> > Provided what Ville said, if I were you, let your package own
> > /etc/bash_completion.d/ ;)
> >
> Indeed, that's what I did. Bugs filed against darcs
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487012) and mercurial
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487015) as well.

Which reminds me:

Does anyone have a script to examine repo metadata for all dependencies on
files/directories?

Do we have any package in the collection that depends on a directory
instead of a package name [to pull in a home directory e.g.]?