Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1017373
rpmdevtools install intrusive bash completion
Last modified: 2014-01-04 19:40:00 EST
Description of problem: When rpmdevtools packge is installed, tab-expansion of filenames is compromised. In particular, spec name cannot be expanded for rpmlint. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpmdevtools-8.3-3.fc19.noarch How reproducible: Synchronoous but may depend on order of install in /etc/bash_completion.d Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install rpmdevtools rpmdiff 2. cd somewhere in Fedora git tree where you have a spec file foo.spec 3. rpmlint f<TAB> Actual results: Insane grinding of the disk for about a minute, maybe 90 seconds Expected results: foo.spec Additional info: I looked at /etc/bash_completion.d/rpmdevtools.bash-completion, but could not understand a thing. Let's have its author figure it out.
rpmlint completion is in the rpmlint package, and rpmdevtools doesn't have a dependency on it. If you want to override programmable rpmlint completion altogether, use Alt-/ instead of Tab. Or start completing the rpmlint specfile prefixing it with ./ so it won't trigger lookup of installed packages. I've never seen anything like 90 seconds for this though. My 3 year old laptop (which OTOH has a SSD disk) does it in less than half a second.
I filed this against rpmdevtools because in my testing it seemed that removing rpmdevtools would resume normal completion. However, it seems that perhaps I was wrong. When rpmlint alone is installed, completion takes 11 seconds or so, which is much faster but still not ideal.