On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 13:27 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On 8/31/06, Richard Hally <rhally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > seth vidal wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 16:42 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > >> Le Jeu 31 août 2006 16:31, Rahul a écrit : > > >>> seth vidal wrote: > > >>> > > >>>> Outside of downloading files you should be able to cancel yum at any > > >>>> time in recent cvs pulls. > > >>> Users usually want to cancel it only during downloads because the > > >>> mirrors or down or they are on a slow connections and things like that. > > >> The other slow part is the rpm transaction, and most users are not mad > > >> enough to cancel it. > > > > > > cancelling during the transaction is a bad, bad idea. > > > > > > -sv > > > > > > > > How about when yum seg faults and leaves the rpm db a "messed up" state > > and you try yum again and it just hangs or loops? > > Yes, killall -9 yum works. > > I guess the real problem is the seg faults or whatever other reasons yum > > needs to be kill. > > > > Richard > > > > Is the rpm db too big to be backed up every time yum starts? So at > least fixing such a problem would be easier? > the rpmdb being hosed up is not the biggest problem. We're talking about the files being put onto the disks. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
