[libvirt] [PATCH 3/3] tools: Make symlinks to vsh bash-completion script

Martin Kletzander mkletzan at redhat.com
Wed Jan 31 11:42:59 UTC 2018


On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 03:22:20PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>The bash-completion project documents that only those scripts
>from $BASH_COMPLETIONS_DIR that share name with the current
>command for which <TAB> was hit are loaded [1]. This means, that
>vsh script we have there is not loaded. We have to create
>symlinks for virsh and virt-admin.
>

Good to know, I recall that the completions had their own way how to say for
which commands they can complete, but probably my memory doesn't serve me well.
Also it's not ECC, so...

>At the same time, we have to create new RPM package because
>virt-admin and client packages are independent. That means we
>cannot place the vsh script in either of them. What we can do is
>to have a different package that contains the completion script
>and then virt-admin and client packages contain only the symlink
>and require the bash-completion package.
>
>1: https://github.com/scop/bash-completion#faq
>
>Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
>---
> libvirt.spec.in   | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
> tools/Makefile.am |  7 ++++++-
> 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in
>index f62d7d324..1879e1f8b 100644
>--- a/libvirt.spec.in
>+++ b/libvirt.spec.in
>@@ -1017,6 +1017,9 @@ Requires: gnutls-utils
> # Needed for probing the power management features of the host.
> Requires: pm-utils
> %endif
>+%if %{with_bash_completion}
>+Requires: %{name}-bash-completion = %{version}-%{release}
>+%endif
>
> %description client
> The client binaries needed to access the virtualization
>@@ -1041,10 +1044,22 @@ Summary: Set of tools to control libvirt daemon
> Group: Development/Libraries
> Requires: %{name}-libs = %{version}-%{release}
> Requires: readline
>+%if %{with_bash_completion}
>+Requires: %{name}-bash-completion = %{version}-%{release}
>+%endif
>
> %description admin
> The client side utilities to control the libvirt daemon.
>
>+%if %{with_bash_completion}
>+%package bash-completion
>+Summary: Bash completion script

I'd say "Bash completion script for libvirt clients"

>+Group: Development/Libraries
>+
>+%description bash-completion
>+Bash completion script stub.

Similarly here, add info that it's for libvirt cli or something.

Otherwise looks good, ACK with those two things fixed.
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