[arch-general] bash 4.0 / readline 6.0 rebuilds

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Aaron Griffin<aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

And things are up there in testing. Not all extra packages have been
rebuilt yet, but we're working on it slowly but surely