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

[Yuan Yijun]

2006/9/2, Callum Lerwick <seg at haxxed.com>:
> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 10:14 +0100, José Matos wrote:
> > On Friday 01 September 2006 10:01, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > > 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)
> >
> >   I saw too. It switches mirror, loads the files and after all the downloads
> > it exits.
>
> Yeah its been doing this for a while. This just makes the "switch to
> another mirror" feature make even less sense. Why would anyone want it
> to switch to another mirror, but then NOT install the packages?
>
> The ability to force a mirror switch is handy, but ctrl-c is the wrong
> key for it. How about escape instead?
>
>

The most annoying thing regards with swithing mirror, is you could
only know the mirror you switched from, not the one switched to. This
seems contrary with the intention of random mirrors, and what I need
should be yum-fastestmirror..

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