Bug 1270295 - dnf bash-completion is a bit flaky
Summary: dnf bash-completion is a bit flaky
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf
Version: 28
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Kutlak
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-10-09 14:19 UTC by Davide Repetto
Modified: 2018-06-28 16:41 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-06-28 08:13:31 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Davide Repetto 2015-10-09 14:19:40 UTC
Description of problem:
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The bash-completion of dnf does not always work properly. I will give a few examples here:

- "dnf list pe<TAB>" is not auto-completed while "dnf list available pe<TAB>" works as expected.

- "dnf -y ..." is never completed whatever follows

- "dnf install abc<TAB>" is autocompleted but the completion also shows packages that are already installed, while "dnf remove abc<TAB>" appears to work correctly. That is, it proposes only packages that are installed.

- When new repos are added (eg. a copr has just been enabled) the bash-completion is not aware about their presence until dnf somehow populates the cache. For which incidentally a simple "dnf makecache" is not sufficient and a "--refresh" needs to be specified.


Version-Release number of selected component:
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dnf-1.1.2-4.fc22.noarch

How reproducible:
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Consistently, with the provided examples.

Comment 1 Honza Silhan 2015-10-13 14:30:22 UTC
Thanks for the report.

Could that be improved, Igor?

Otherwise it could be fixed by argcomplete integration.

Comment 2 Christopher Tubbs 2016-05-24 05:02:21 UTC
This appears to be duplicate of bz#1227980

Comment 3 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-07-08 09:30:19 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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Comment 7 Davide Repetto 2017-11-17 17:47:36 UTC
Bugs still present in FC27 dnf-2.7.5-1.fc27.noarch

Comment 8 Abhiram K 2018-01-07 09:01:34 UTC
Can confirm that the mentioned bugs aren't present for me and 2 other systems on FC27 dnf-0:2.7.5-2.fc27.noarch after I install sqlite.

Maybe adding sqlite as a dep for dnf would be okay?

Comment 9 Zamir SUN 2018-03-13 12:07:22 UTC
Commenting on behalf on another non-English speaker: After system installed, sqlite is not installed, so dnf install and dnf remove auto completion don't work.

I confirmed sqlite is not a dependency of dnf. So I suggest maybe packager should add sqlite to dnf as dependency?

Thanks.

Comment 10 Davide Repetto 2018-05-04 18:33:27 UTC
This problem with auto completion still  happens on Fedora 28. Bumbing release to 28.

Comment 11 Martin Kutlak 2018-06-04 16:44:02 UTC
I think all the described problems were fixed with this PR:

https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/894/commits

Comment 12 Jaroslav Mracek 2018-06-28 08:13:31 UTC
The issue is solved by dnf-3.0.1-1 that was released into rawhide.

Comment 13 Davide Repetto 2018-06-28 16:26:54 UTC
Any plans to port it into f28?

Comment 14 Jaroslav Mracek 2018-06-28 16:41:38 UTC
Yes, but we it requires FESCO approve (https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1883).


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