Bug#706065: libvte-2.90-common: /etc/profile.d/vte.sh is not sourced by interactive shells

[Michael Biebl]

Hi,

Am 28.05.2015 um 19:32 schrieb Fabian Greffrath:
> Am Donnerstag, den 28.05.2015, 18:56 +0200 schrieb Michael Biebl: 
>> Those lines are commented out by default and all it does is source
> 
> Hm, I must have mistaken this with /etc/skel/.bashrc. :/
> 
>> /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion, not the individual completions.
> 
> But this script, in turn, does source all the files
> in /usr/share/bash-completion/completions, or not?

Nope, not afaik. The point of usr/share/bash-completion/completions is,
that those are loaded on demand. That's why they need to be named after
the calling executable.

> Am Donnerstag, den 28.05.2015, 19:17 +0200 schrieb Michael Biebl: 
>> Looking into this more, I'm not convinced bash_completion is the right
>> answer here. After all, it also requires explicit user configuration and
>> doesn't actually work if the symlink is in
>> /usr/share/bash-completion/bash_completion. It feels like misusing
>> bash-completion for something it wasn't designed for.
> 
> Now I am puzzled. It worked for me instantly when I copied the file
> to /usr/share/bash-completion/completions and restarted a new
> interactive shell. Also, bash-completion might not be the canonical way
> to source scripts upon shell startup, but e.g. git does the same for its
> branch-aware __git_ps1 prompt.

If I copy a simple script to /usr/share/bash-completion/completions
which does nothing but "echo foo", I don't get "foo" for interactive shells.
If you copy that script to /etc/bash_completion.d/, it is automatically
sourced.

>> I actually think, the best way to address this, if we want to address
>> it, is to revert the upstream change for now and don't require every
>> user to change their config until we have found a better solution.
> 
> What upstream change do you actually mean?

Re-adding reading /proc to detemine the cwd. I see martin has actually
written a nice patch for this, adding it as a fallback.
So users can chose to source vte.sh in there .bashrc, if they prefer,
then this code wouldn't be used. Otherwise we fallback to the old
method. Looks like a good compromise to me.
Much better then misusing the bash-completion mechanism.

Cheers,
Michael


[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697475#c58

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