run_local doesn't respect prefixes

[rabialam]

run_local doesn't respect prefixes

[sebastien]

Hi! Could you please elaborate on this issue, I'm not sure to understand what the problem is. Thanks!

[rabialam]

Sure thing. When you use run_local, it just creates a subprocess.Popen object, and executes that command line basically raw. I basically clipped a few lines from fabric.api.operations to wrap around any prefix contexts blocks that run_local is operating inside in, as well as any sudo context blocks. Otherwise, supposed I wanted to prefix a few blocks with something like this:

with prefix('workon myproj'):
    with prefix('cd subdir/dir'):
        run_local('pwd');

Without the fix, this would evaluate to bash -l -c "pwd" instead of the desired bash -l -c "workon myproj && cd subdir/dir && pwd".

Also, I made a small fix (though this commit is something different) to make the package installable via pip from a git commit number -- there's still an issue pip right now where if you use packages that have a directory structure with your main package inside of a src/<main_file.py> format, pip for some reason will only retain the version number instead of properly persisting the commit and repository url as it should, which causes a maintainability nightmare. Not sure if that particular commit belongs with this issue, though.