On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 11:20:41AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 12:04 -0300, Juergen Botz wrote: > > Maybe this is a stupid question... and to be honest I have not > > looked at the code. But there have been many times that I > > really needed to terminate a running yum, and right now I have > > to use SIGKILL and then I usually need do a 'clean metadata'. > > At best this seems to be bad UI... users need a way to cleanly > > stop any process on the system. > > in the majority of the situation it is due to rpm grabbing those signals > so that a user will not cancel a process in the middle of its database > being written to which could leave the system in a bad state. I recall that some folks (a little myself, but mostly Menno, I think) put a bunch of time into this problem and came up with some clever solutions. I think the plan was that during a download, one ctrl-c would skip to the next mirror and two would bail out of yum. Did that code ever make it in? -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department and Optical Sciences Center 520-626-1619 University of Arizona ECE 524G
