eselect bashcomp gone

[Timmer]

Hi, I installed bash-completion but when I look in eselect, there is no bashcomp module. Is there another step that i'm missing?

[HTS]

Same here it disappeared yesterday, been driving me nuts all day.

Also my git-prompt is gone. I can temporarily fix by running:
source /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git-prompt
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[ShinyDoofy]

Glad I'm not the only one! This one seems to have come from updating app-shells/bash-completion to 2.1-r1.

I probably could go back by installing 2.1 again, but then all the recompiling would have been nothing but a waste (including libreoffice and 25 other packages). Meh!

However, there already is a bug about this. I just can't seem to follow through with it, unfortunately. If anyone has more luck or a better understanding of missing files and when/how to patch what exactly, I'd be more than happy to try it out.

/nvm, patching doesn't seem to bring back eselect bashcomp either.

[HTS]

Downgrading eselect to app-admin/eselect-1.3.6 makes bashcomp come back to eselect.
However, eselect bashcomp list only lists modules present directly in /usr/share/bash-completion

Stuff in /usr/share/bash-completion/completions is ignored... so looks like someone messed up big time here

EDIT: to get back to a working system while devs sort the mess:
Add the following to package.mask:

[ShinyDoofy]

There's a different bug that explicitly asked to remove the eselect module in 1.3.7. Apparently, completions are now loaded dynamically whenever they are needed.

I source /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh in my .bashrc and normal completions (like for cd and git) work fine. However, git-prompt is not loaded dynamically and thus __git_ps1 can't be found until i source it explicitly. Otherwise, it's "simply" all been turned to work automagically and when needed.

[HTS]

[papu]

it works nice for me with source /etc/profile.d/bash_completion.sh
but eix don't list packages like emerge do. Until now eix was listing the packages.

[wdsci]

So to be clear: I'm still experiencing this problem (eselect bashcomp doesn't exist, and git-prompt completions are not loaded) after updating everything to latest ~amd64 versions last night. Is it going to be the expected and normal behavior from now on that I have to explicitly source /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git-prompt?

[ShinyDoofy]

On Aug 29, bash-completion 2.1-r1 was hard masked. See /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask for details. Apparently, there was a number of bugs and people disagreeing about the changes performed.

As a consequence of the rollback, completion is garbled, to put it nicely. I had to re-emerge git to get the completions in the now correct-again path, run a script over all the completions eselect bashcomp offers (yes, it's back!).

Foremost, you will have to change your profile/.bashrc to include bash-completion.sh instead of bash_completion.sh (dash vs underscore). Hope this helps someone.

[Ant P.]

You have to reinstall everything that puts files in /usr/share/bash-completion when upgrading, and I assume the same applies for downgrading.

For me, I've just added them to package.unmask. I've just finished cleaning up that fallout the first time; by pushing everyone who's done so to revert with no further explanation, this "cure" is worse than the problem it's claiming to solve.

[ShinyDoofy]

I've done the same for now as the list of packages is just too big considering it's all going to get turned around again soon (or so I think).