[PATCH] build: Drop execute permissions on virsh bash completion command

Jim Fehlig jfehlig at suse.com
Fri Jan 31 16:01:41 UTC 2020


On 1/31/20 8:39 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 1/31/20 3:38 PM, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>> rpmlint complains about "script-without-shebang" due to the execute
>> permissions on /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/vsh. Use
>> INSTALL_DATA instead of INSTALL_SCRIPT to avoid the unnecessary
>> execute permissions.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig at suse.com>
>> ---
>>
>> BTW, of the nearly 800 files in /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/
>> on my installation, only vsh has execute permissions set.
>>
>>   tools/Makefile.am | 2 +-
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/Makefile.am b/tools/Makefile.am
>> index 426a6ba661..d9d1a2f43f 100644
>> --- a/tools/Makefile.am
>> +++ b/tools/Makefile.am
>> @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ libvirt-guests.service: libvirt-guests.service.in 
>> $(top_builddir)/config.status
>>   if WITH_BASH_COMPLETION
>>   install-bash-completion:
>>       $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(BASH_COMPLETIONS_DIR)"
>> -    $(INSTALL_SCRIPT) $(srcdir)/bash-completion/vsh \
>> +    $(INSTALL_DATA) $(srcdir)/bash-completion/vsh \
>>           "$(DESTDIR)$(BASH_COMPLETIONS_DIR)/vsh"
>>       ( cd $(DESTDIR)$(BASH_COMPLETIONS_DIR) && \
>>           rm -f virsh virt-admin && \
>>
> 
> Frankly, I don't know why I wanted it to be executable. Perhaps I thought that 
> if it wasn't bash would not load it, but apparently, that's not true. BTW, I 
> have another executable file there, but the majority isn't.

I should have been as precise :-). Turns out there are a lot of links in that 
directory.

> # find /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ -type f -executable
> /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/vsh
> /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/perf

/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/vsh
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/colormgr

> # find /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ -type f \! -executable | wc -l
> 576

615

> Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>

Thanks!

Regards,
Jim





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