OK, if the code changes to a new one, that's great ! Thank you for that information. Also, I would suggest you to put these answers on a FAQ page on your site, it would help many people.. Or put it in a searchable archive, that would do it also. Thank you for all that. Daniel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Stenner" <mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 7:31 PM Subject: Re: [Yum] yum cancelling doesn't work ? > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
