[pacman-dev] XferCommand substitutions and quoting

Dave Reisner d at falconindy.com
Sat May 25 13:08:41 EDT 2013


On May 25, 2013 1:02 PM, "Xyne" <xyne at archlinux.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The commented XferCommands in the default pacman.conf lack proper quoting.
> Would you please add single quotes around the place holders "%u" and "%o"?

I'd be opposed to this. The substitutions should be made to be shell safe
(pre-quoted) so that the user doesn't need to worry about it.

> Thanks.
>
>
> Regards,
> Xyne
>


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