How do I make sbopkg's bash-completion pick up the SBo-git repository (-current) rather than SBo?

Lockywolf · 05-07-2020, 02:04 AM

I am trying to read /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/sbopkg , but don't seem to grasp it so far.

Is there a way to make bash-completion suggest packages from Matteo's repository?

business_kid · 05-07-2020, 04:27 AM

I'm on Slackware64 and don't have that file.

SBo = slackbuilds, afaik where you grab a single slackbuild and build the source. The stuff to change is in the first few lines of a slackbuild.

For more complicated & automagic stuff, you probably need slackpkg, which is a totally different animal.

Bash completion is down to what bash knows. For instance, I have only one file bginning with 'g'in my homedir; so if I type 'g<Tab> in bash, it will complete the filename. You left us short on more specific information. You'd be better posting again, with your actual problem, as most of probably aren't on the same page as you.

Lockywolf · 05-07-2020, 04:51 AM

This file is in /extra/bash-completion-*

There is even a Slackware Wiki page on it:

https://slackwiki.com/Bash_Autocompletion

shruggy · 05-07-2020, 04:53 AM

I'm not a Slacker, but as I understand it from looking at the completion code, you don't need to touch it at all. All the relevant settings are in /etc/sbopkg/sbopkg.conf:

Code:

QUEUEDIR=${QUEUEDIR:-/var/lib/sbopkg/queues}
REPO_ROOT=${REPO_ROOT:-/var/lib/sbopkg}
...
REPO_BRANCH=${REPO_BRANCH:-14.2}
REPO_NAME=${REPO_NAME:-SBo}

The relevant parts of the completion code are these:

Code:

local config="/etc/sbopkg/sbopkg.conf"
...
. $config
...
COMPREPLY=( $( sed -ne "/^SLACKBUILD NAME: $cur/{s/^SLACKBUILD NAME: //;p}"\
    $REPO_ROOT/$REPO_NAME/$REPO_BRANCH/SLACKBUILDS.TXT )
    $( cd $QUEUEDIR; compgen -f -X "!*.sqf"  -- "$cur" ) )

drgibbon · 05-07-2020, 11:30 AM

sbotools is another option if you want -current support for SBo. The various tools (sboremove, sboinstall, sboupgrade, etc) come with zsh completions. Would be cool if someone would convert those to bash

drgibbon · 05-07-2020, 11:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

SBo = slackbuilds, afaik where you grab a single slackbuild and build the source. The stuff to change is in the first few lines of a slackbuild.

He's talking about using a particular interface to SBo (sbopkg), but he wants it to use the development repo of SBo instead of the usual public one for stable (and have the bash completions work, which come from extra/bash-completion in this case).

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

For more complicated & automagic stuff, you probably need slackpkg, which is a totally different animal.

slackpkg is about installing from pre-prepared packages. There's the slackpkg+ addon to make it easy to use additional repos, although this is not the same as SBo, which provides scripts to build additional software from source.

Quote:

Originally Posted by business_kid

Bash completion is down to what bash knows. For instance, I have only one file bginning with 'g'in my homedir; so if I type 'g<Tab> in bash, it will complete the filename. You left us short on more specific information. You'd be better posting again, with your actual problem, as most of probably aren't on the same page as you.

And bash can "know more" if someone writes a completion for a particular program

E.g., if /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/sbopkg exists, and you type: sbopkg <tab>, then the logic of the completion file will kick in. Zsh has a very nice completion system by the way, although I only use it interactive, #!/usr/bin/env bash for scripts.