On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 07:14 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Paul Allen Newell writes: > > > A quick question which is hopefully just "an education request" ... > > > > While reinstalling f12 on a machine that I "messed up", I was following > > all my notes and directions and reached the point where the install was > > successful and it was time to update. I did a "su -l" and then typed > > "yum update". I realized I had forgotten something and immediately did a > > "control-C" in the terminal that I had executed the "yum update". To my > > surprise, it ignored it until it got to the first confirm and then > > proceeded to kill the process. No problem as the update was stopped but ... > > > > I though "control-C" was an immediate kill of whatever was running and > > was wondering why yum didn't stop when I tried to kill it. > > Probably because if you interrupt packages in the middle of updating, you > have an excellent chance of FUBARing your entire system. > > This has been a long standing problem with rpm. If you interrupt a long > update, you'll end up with both the old and the new version of affected > packages installed. That's always fun to clean up. > > Don't do that. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines I have been using Tony Nelson's stablemirror for several years (and Control/C) with yum (currently F12) with no problems. http://www.georgeanelson.com/stablemirror.htm "Stablemirror provides working Ctl-C handling during downloads, in a way that I belive is safe for the underlying RPM database." John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
