[arch-general] bash 4.0 / readline 6.0 rebuilds

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Thomas Bächler<thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Aaron Griffin schrieb:
>>>>
>>>> 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