On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 07:48 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 12:45 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > This bug has been originally reported against yum/FC3 by Rahul Sundaram > > and continues to thrive... > > In essence, once yum begins to download files, it misinterprets Ctrl-C > > as "Mirror switch" instead of "Cancel", leaving the user no direct way > > to halt yum. > > This has been considered a feature by a fair number of users. I don't doubt it. Buy why use Ctrl-C? It's like using the "X" button on a gnome WM decoration to maximize the Window. It simpley makes no sense. > > > > (I usually suspend yum [Ctrl-Z] and then kill it using "killall -9 yum" > > which is -far- from being an ideal solution). > > > Outside of downloading files you should be able to cancel yum at any > time in recent cvs pulls. At least on slow(er) links, Download is the longest running task. > > > Any chance of getting this fixed before FC6? > > I'm not sure we'll ever be fixing the mirror skip thing or not. A couple of possible solutions spring in mind. A. Enable Ctrl-\ (SIGABRT) kill yum. B. If you hit Ctrl-C twice, kill yum. And my favorite: C. Move mirror switch to a different keyboard combination (Ctrl-M?) and return Ctrl-C to its default behavior - graceful shutdown. Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
