On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 04:29:22PM +0200, dan1 wrote: > Hi to all, > > I tried to cancel the execution of yum while it was downloading something > (with ctrl-c), but it wasn't possible. > I find that annoying. Is this behaviour planned, or is it a bug ? > I am working on centOS 3.1, i386. > > If you need to forbid this possibility during the installation, you could > perhaps allow it during the download process. This isn't intentional behavior, but we haven't gone nuts looking for it because some folks have found it helpful. If one fetch is stalled, a ctrl-c will abandon it and try again. > Finally, it has stopped after having downloaded everything, but the > /var/run/yum.pid has been left after the cancel, and I wasn't able to run > yum anymore. Now I just deleted this file and it seems OK. > Perhaps there is also a little bug this way. Yeah, yum really doesn't clean up as well as it could. It's really not worth diving deeply into this, though, because the main infrastructure code of yum is changing for the next version. -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department, the University of Arizona 520-626-1619 1230 E. Speedway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721-0104 ECE 524G
