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

[Gilboa Davara]

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