Bug 549897

Description of problem:
hen you use escape '\' characters in the pre/post scripts section (kickstart file management), the editor does not put these into the resulting kickstart file. Editor should put text in verbatim, similar to what it in Satellite 5.2.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite 5.3.0

System architecture(s):
RHEL 5.4 x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new kickstart profile
2. Go to the scripts tab for the new profile and add a new %pre or %post script with the contents:
echo "\\$zoom \$zoom $zoom"
3. Select the "Kickstart File" tab and scroll down 

Actual results:
echo "\$zoom $zoom $zoom"
Notice that a single escape character has been removed before each dollar-sign. 

Expected results:
echo "\\$zoom \$zoom $zoom"

Additional info from customer:
[snip]
Since these scripts do not use templating, Satellite is wrapping them in Cheetah #raw directives.  The Cheetah User Guide says that text inside a #raw .. #end raw tag pair will be printed verbatim.  I've narrowed this down to a bug in the way Cheetah handles its #raw directives, as can be seen here:

Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Aug 21 2009, 12:23:57)
[GCC 4.4.1 20090818 (Red Hat 4.4.1-6)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> t = """#raw
... This escape should be preserved: \\$unexpanded
... So should this one: \\#blah
... The string "\\012" should not disappear.  #end raw"""
>>> print t
#raw
This escape should be preserved: \$unexpanded
So should this one: \#blah
The string "\012" should not disappear.  #end raw
>>> import Cheetah.Template
>>> print Cheetah.Template.Template ( t, [ { "unexpanded" : "EXPANDED" } ]  )
This escape should be preserved: $unexpanded
So should this one: #blah
The string "" should not disappear.
>>>

I have proposed the attached patches (0001-Move-escaped-vars-to-parser.patch and 0002-split-multiline-at-repr-breaks.patch) upstream to resolve the issue.  If accepted, they will need to be back-ported.
[snip]

Impact to the customer:
high - all the kickstart profiles the client currently has are rolling out incorrect ks files, which is doing bad things