bash-completion: completions directory needs to be manually linked in

[macports@…]

I have the port bash-completion as well as several ports such as mercurial and svn installed with +bash_completion variant. However, to get the ports to take effect I need to symlink/copy the installed completion files from /opt/local/share/bash-completion/completions/ to /opt/local/etc/bash_completion.d...or I have to symlink the whole directory completions to bash_completion.d...This shouldn't be required IMHO...

Macports versoin 2.1.3 (latest) on Mountain Lion (10.8.4), Bash 4.2.45 is the login shell

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

I thought the default completions directory had changed recently...

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Cc Me!

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

Replying to egall@…:

I thought the default completions directory had changed recently...

It did. See comment:2:ticket:39315.

[macports@…]

It seems that the bash-completions directory has moved..and all the ports are linking the file into the new location: /opt/local/share/bash-completion/completions/ However, it seems that bash-completion itself is not using this location at all!

It only seems to be using the BASH_COMPLETION_COMPAT_DIR (set to /opt/local/etc/bash_completion.d) to source from there.

[macports@…]

Please close as invalid...I am opening another one with the port mercurial since its the mercurial completion that is at fault for not creating the completion file with the name 'hg' instead of 'mercurial'

[larryv (Lawrence Velázquez)]

New ticket at #39488.