Re: Follow up for bash-completion pkgconfig file packaging change

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On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 4:33 PM Mamoru TASAKA <mtasaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello, all:
>
> After investigating the recent Fedora-Security-Live livespin compose failure
> on F-41, it is found that this is caused because:
>
> - Recently on F-41, bash-completion packaging changed so that pkgconfig file
>    is moved into -devel subpackage: (bash-completion-2.11-15.fc41)
>    https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/bash-completion/c/d1f5dc48c0440cc68efdd519b78fccca416cad94?branch=rawhide
>
> - A package (lynis) installing bash-completion file into the directory
>    $(pkg-config --variable=completionsdir bash-completion), had "BuildRequires: bash-completion",
>    but did not have "BuildRequires: pkgconfig(bash-completion)".
>
> - So after the above bash-completion side packaging change, the above command line was
>    expanded to the empty string, so the completion file was installed into the wrong directory,
>    which caused conflict with filesystem rpm.
>
>
> So on F-41(rawhide), the packages
>
> * trying to install bash-completion file using $(pkg-config --variable=completionsdir bash-completion)
> * which have "BuildRequires: bash-completion", but do NOT have "BuildRequires: pkgconfig(bash-completion)"
>
> may be installing completion file into wrong directories after rebuild.
> (At least, I tried rebuilding cowsay and actually it installs completion file into the wrong
>   directory).

I wonder why these packages rely in pkg-config and don't just install
to `%{bash_completions_dir}`?
This macro is defined in the default buildroot, regardless of
BuildRequires, and always expands to the correct location for
installing bash completions.

Fabio
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