On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 16:29:22 +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. > > 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. What version of yum and python are you using? The latest version I got from freshrpms aborts everything on a Ctl-C, with about 20 lines of a stack trace. Previous versions would restart a download unless I pressed Ctl-C several times quickly. -Paul
