seth vidal wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 16:42 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Is there a graceful way to tell yum to stop when you realize it is >> not going to complete in some reasonable amount of time? By 'graceful' >> I mean don't retry every possible mirror for each of the remaining >> 200+ updates it is planning to get before actually stopping... > > yum 2.9.6 should resolve that. > > hit ctrl-c, twice, quickly. > > that will exit. > -sv To clarify, hitting CTRL-C once will abort the download from the current mirror and move to the next one. Hitting CTRL-C twice in quick succession will quit Yum. Menno