[Yum-devel] [PATCH] quote uids to keep cachedir ascii-clean. BZ 832195

[Zdenek Pavlas]

>  It solves the problem, but the commit messages says "uids" when it's
> actually "username" ... and I _think_ sysadmins. would much prefer it
> if we didn't quote here.

Sorry, i meant 'uid' as in rfc4519 (login name), not the numeric one,
neither the (full) user name.

>  Atm. we have stuff like:
> 
> yum-james-dwPkso/
> 
> ...and after this patch we'll have stuff like:
> 
> yum-j%C2%B9-dwPkso/

'james' is ascii, so there should be no change (unless I miss something)
I'm using this patch for a while, and it's still 'yum-zpavlas-Ol3yeF'..

> yum-[123]-dwPkso/
> ...where "123" is their uid. Another option is to use the uid all the
> time. Any opinions?

Two code paths are bad.  The nice thing with quoting is that it's no-op
in most cases, so we don't pollute /var/tmp with two sets of directories.