My favorite pet bug (2004): Yum mishandles Ctrl-C

Kristian Høgsberg krh at redhat.com
Thu Aug 31 16:49:38 UTC 2006


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.

Why is it called a transaction, then?  There's a bit of false advertising there...

Kristian




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