diff --git a/bash_completion b/bash_completion
index a9332ac4..4567571d 100644
--- a/bash_completion
+++ b/bash_completion
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #   bash_completion - some programmable completion functions for bash 2.05a
 #
-#   $Id: bash_completion,v 1.143 2002/02/24 06:43:48 ianmacd Exp $
+#   $Id: bash_completion,v 1.144 2002/02/24 20:52:22 ianmacd Exp $
 #
 #   Copyright (C) Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
 #
@@ -846,6 +846,8 @@ _rpm()
 		COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W 'nodeps rmsource rmspec sign \
 					   nodirtokens' ${cur_nodash#-} ) )
 		dashify
+		# return if $cur is an option
+		[[ "$cur" == -* ]] && return 0
 		# complete on source RPMs
 		COMPREPLY=( ${COMPREPLY[@]} $( compgen -f -X '!*.src.rpm' \
 					       $cur ) )
@@ -871,6 +873,8 @@ _rpm()
 		COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W 'clean rmsource rmspec' \
 			       ${cur_nodash#-} ) )
 		dashify
+		# return if $cur is an option
+		[[ "$cur" == -* ]] && return 0
 		file_glob spec
 		return 0
 		;;