On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:12:55 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:58:21 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > Did I mention that Ctrl-C should be kill yum and -not- switch > > mirrors??!?!??! > > That is actually useful. Typing it twice or thrice should kill > yum, however, at least it did some time ago. A common scenario for newbies, which make you bow your head in shame: You had thought they would prefer the graphical package tools, you have not recommended the command-line, but they know Google and have found lots of documentation about how to install something with Yum. And what happens? Metadata checksum failures on apparently all mirrors. ^C doesn't help. Yum switches through all available mirrors. WTF? Some time later, 78 updates are available. Newbie is caught in a loop of download failures, mirror-switching, ^C attempts, low through-put, and reacts very surprised and disappointed about "this Linux stuff". -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
