[PATCH] Run yum commands without shell, as sequences instead of strings.

[Ville Skyttä]

On 03/07/2011 10:19 PM, seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 22:17 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>> Fixes shell escaping issues like in '--install "perl(Foo::Bar)"'.  The
>> "canonical" syntax for chroot_setup_cmd in configs is now a tuple or a
>> list, but a string is still accepted for backwards compatibility (it
>> gets split to list internally).
>
> I think I'd be more inclined to make it possible to accept the
> list/tuple but default to the string in the configs.
>
> it makes it easier to understand/read for people not familiar with
> python.

Wow, that was quick, you beat me to writing the explanatory mail that 
should have arrived by now :)

Anyway, I don't have strong opinions either way, changing it to be the 
way you suggested (and I discussed in the other mentioned mail) would be 
a matter of not touching the config files and rewording the related 
"deprecated" comment in code.