Fedora Bounties (seeking ideas)

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 16:01 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> seth vidal (skvidal at linux.duke.edu) said: 
> > On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 21:07 +0200, Leszek Matok wrote:
> > > Dnia 17-04-2006, pon o godzinie 20:21 +0200, Joost Soeterbroek
> > > napisał(a):
> > > > idea: YUM Fedora internal update server ('reposerver')
> > > So maybe let's make yum usable? :)
> > > How about:
> > > - ^C support! (Insert lots of curses here) Logging in as root on another
> > > console to killall -9 yum is boring.
> > 
> > rpm grabs ctrl-c when you open a transaction set. That is the trick. We
> > could work around it - but something should probably give here.
> 
> I do not know for sure, but he may be discussing the Ctrl-C ->
> fallback to next mirror behavior.
> 
> > > - not downloading older repo data than newer, but grabbed from another
> > > mirror earlier
> > 
> > again - how do we determine this w/o downloading the information?
> 
> HEAD? (Yeah, yeah, only works for HTTP.)
> 

and only some http servers.

-sv