can't stop yum, must use kill -9

nodata fedora at nodata.co.uk
Sun Apr 17 15:45:12 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 12:36 -0300, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
> Fred New wrote:
> 
> >Marius Andreiana wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I don't know if it's a new issue, but I first noticed this in fc4t2.
> >>When yum is downloading packages, it can't be stopped pressing ctrl+c
> >>(it will switch to another mirror and continue).
> >> 
> >>    
> >>
> >I appreciate this behavior since some mirrors can be real dogs.
> >If ctrl+c killed yum, how could I indicate to yum that I wanted
> >to try a different mirror?
> >  
> >
> What about CTRL+C having the default behaviour (stopping the 
> application) and something else being used to tell yum to change mirror 
> (something like CTRL+M , for example)?
> 
> --
> Pedro Macedo
> 

This is a good idea. Alternatively, yum could take a "mail"-style
approach "press ^C again to kill letter". Two ^Cs would kill yum.




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