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

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 8/31/06, Richard Hally <rhally at mindspring.com> 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?

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