Bash-completion is written with FHS in mind where completion scripts all get added to /usr/share/bash-completion/completions and are picked up by the dynamic completion loader from there---whether they are part of bash-completion or installed by another package. On Guix systems, we want not only to search within bash-completion's own directory, but also in the user's profile and in the system profile. This is what this patch does. --- bash-completion-2.1/bash_completion 2015-03-11 09:45:45.056846446 +0100 +++ bash-completion-2.1/bash_completion 2015-03-11 09:52:43.248159504 +0100 @@ -1928,9 +1928,20 @@ _completion_loader() local compfile=./completions [[ $BASH_SOURCE == */* ]] && compfile="${BASH_SOURCE%/*}/completions" compfile+="/${1##*/}" + local base="${1##*/}" + # Look for completion files in the user and global profiles and + # lastly in 'bash-completion' itself. + for file in \ + "$HOME/.guix-profile/share/bash-completion/completions/$base" \ + "$HOME/.guix-profile/etc/bash_completion.d/$base" \ + "/run/current-system/profile/share/bash-completion/completions/$base" \ + "/run/current-system/profile/etc/bash_completion.d/$base" \ + "$compfile" + do # Avoid trying to source dirs; https://bugzilla.redhat.com/903540 - [[ -f "$compfile" ]] && . "$compfile" &>/dev/null && return 124 + [[ -f "$file" ]] && . "$file" &>/dev/null && return 124 + done # Need to define *something*, otherwise there will be no completion at all. complete -F _minimal "$1" && return 124