reduce global Bash profile to the bare minimum which is always ok to configure without nasty side-effects. Everything else has to be done by the user explicitly (or through OSSP due in the near future)

bash/bash.spec

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Class:        CORE
 Group:        Shell
 License:      GPL
 Version:      %{V_base_real}.%{V_plvl_raw}
-Release:      20040909
+Release:      20041023
 
 #   list of sources
 Source0:      ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-%{V_base_real}.tar.gz

bash/profile

@@ -2,100 +2,17 @@
 ##  @l_prefix@/etc/bash/profile -- Global GNU Bash Profile
 ##
 
-#   welcome and goodbye message ;)
-echo "$HOSTNAME: user $USER, login at `date`"
-trap 'echo "$HOSTNAME: user $USER, logout at `date`"' 0
-
-#   initially adjust $PWD to symbolic path
-cd $HOME
-
-#   provide user and host information in default prompt
-PS1="\u@\h\$ "
-
-#   session timeout
-export TMOUT=3600
+#   interactive prompt
+if expr $- : ".*i.*" >/dev/null; then
+    PS1="\u@\h\\\$ "
+fi
 
 #   environment permissions
 umask 022
-ulimit -c 16384
-if [ ".$PS1" != . ]; then
-    mesg y 2>/dev/null
-fi
 
 #   history functionality
 shopt -s histappend
 HISTSIZE=100
 HISTFILESIZE=100
-alias h='history | $PAGER'
-
-#   various additional variables
-export TMPDIR=/tmp
-export TEMPDIR=$TMPDIR
-export BLOCKSIZE=1024
-
-#   turn on extended globbing
-shopt -s extglob no_empty_cmd_completion
-
-#   make directory commands see only directories
-complete -d cd mkdir rmdir pushd
-
-#   make file commands see only (their) files
-complete -f cat less more ln strip
-complete -f -X '*.bz2' bzip2
-complete -f -X '!*.bz2' bunzip2
-complete -f -X '!*.zip' unzip
-complete -f -X '*.gz' gzip
-complete -f -X '*.Z' compress
-complete -f -X '!*.+(Z|gz|tgz|Gz)' gunzip zcat zmore
-complete -f -X '!*.Z' uncompress zmore zcat
-complete -f -X '!*.+(gif|jpg|jpeg|GIF|JPG|bmp)' xv display
-complete -f -X '!*.+(ps|PS|ps.gz)' gv gs mgv
-complete -f -X '!*.+(dvi|DVI)' dvips xdvi
-complete -f -X '!*.+(pdf|PDF)' acroread xpdf
-complete -f -X '!*.texi*' makeinfo texi2dvi texi2html
-complete -f -X '!*.+(tex|TEX)' tex latex
-complete -f -X '!*.+(c|cc|C|h|hh|H)' cc gcc
-
-#   make signal and job commands see only signals/jobs
-complete -A signal kill -P '%'
-complete -A stopped -P '%' bg
-complete -j -P '%' fg jobs
-
-#   make user/group commands see only users/groups
-complete -u passwd su finger
-complete -u passwd
-
-#   make network commands see only hostnames
-complete -A hostname ssh rsh telnet rlogin ftp ping host traceroute nslookup dig
-
-#   make internal commands see only their possibilities
-complete -v export local readonly unset
-complete -A setopt set
-complete -A shopt shopt
-complete -A helptopic help
-complete -a unalias
-complete -A binding bind
-
-#   convenient root privilege switching
-root () {
-    if [ $# -eq 0 -o ".$1" = ".-i" ]; then
-        ssh -t -x root@localhost cd $PWD \&\& exec ${SHELL-/bin/sh}
-    elif [ ".$1" = ".-l" ]; then
-        ssh -x root@localhost cd $PWD \&\& `history | tail -2 | head -1 | cut -c8-`
-    elif [ ".$1" = ".-t" ]; then
-        shift
-        ssh -t -x root@localhost cd $PWD \&\& "$@"
-    else
-        ssh -x root@localhost cd $PWD \&\& "$@"
-    fi
-}
-
-#   load the Bourne-Shell environment of all installed OpenPKG packages
-eval `@l_prefix@/etc/rc --eval all env`
-
-#   path to user environment init script
-if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
-    BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc
-    . $BASH_ENV
-fi
+HISTIGNORE="&"