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 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. > > > Any chance of getting this fixed before FC6? > > I'm not sure we'll ever be fixing the mirror skip thing or not. > > -sv > BTW, at least on FC4 and FC5 yum, hitting Ctrl-C will switch mirror just file, but will abort the yum operation once the download is complete. (Without installing the packages) Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
