On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Caleb Cushing wrote:

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been using arch for a few months and generally good and current... but I just noticed that it still hasn't moved to bash 4. I'm wondering what the status of it is? and where it's being held up (searching the bugtracker found nothing that looked on target). perhaps I can help?

-- Caleb Cushing

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Blame me for this - I've been sucking at this. The time I get to actually do the rebuilds isn't enough to keep up with the ever-changing package versions for everything in extra. Initially, however, bash 4.0 broke mkinitcpio, making unbootable machines, so I held off for a bit. I think I'm going to just put the core packages in testing and get some help with the extra packages. Feel free to email me personally and yell if I don't at least get some of this in testing by tonight.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Caleb Cushing wrote:

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Initially, however, bash 4.0 broke mkinitcpio, making unbootable machines, so I held off for a bit.

so this is fixed now...

Yeah, it was fixed around patch 15 or so... think they're up to 23 or 24

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I think I'm going to just put the core packages in testing and get some help with the extra packages.

unless debian has pushed a new bash completion. I can pretty much guarantee some bash-completion breakage. some things just don't work right w/ bash 4 (I forget the specifics). Other than that, everything worked fine on gentoo*. obviously this is not gentoo* but for the most part I'd think the same breakages would apply.

There is a new upstream for bash-completion, which I may also release around the same time - need to check and see if it works

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:

Aaron Griffin schrieb:

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I think I'm going to just put the core packages in testing and get some help with the extra packages.

unless debian has pushed a new bash completion. I can pretty much guarantee some bash-completion breakage. some things just don't work right w/ bash 4 (I forget the specifics). Other than that, everything worked fine on gentoo*. obviously this is not gentoo* but for the most part I'd think the same breakages would apply.

There is a new upstream for bash-completion, which I may also release around the same time - need to check and see if it works

At least pacman contains a bash-completion file, is that still compatible? There might be more arch-specific completion files too.

Yeah. bash has a built in completion mechanism (see the 'complete' builtin). bash-completion just contains bash functions that the complete mechanism can call/use