[Wylug-help] Bash Completion on Centos

[John Hodrien]

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Smylers wrote:

> John Hodrien writes:
>
>> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Smylers wrote:
>>
>>> Hi.  Sourcing /etc/bash_completion is failing for me: This is the
>>> first time I've ever used Centos (or Red Hat Enterprise).
>>
>> I can at least reproduce it, but am not about to try and find out why
>> at the minute.
>
> It appears to be this bug:
>
>  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487774
>  http://j.mp/Bash_completion_readonly_bug_fix
>
>> No such problem with the epel release.
>>
>> 1.0-2.el5 from EPEL works just fine afaik.
>
> Thanks; I hadn't previously heard of Epel.
>
> Is it recommended?  I'm not the sys-admin for this server, and if it's
> currently using only officially supported packages I'm wary about
> installing things from elsewhere.

You're not currently using a supported bash-completion, you're using one from
dag/rpmforge.

EPEL is (as a margin close to zero) less unsupported than rpmforge.

jh