[Yum] yum cancelling doesn't work ?

[dan1]

Hello, Paul.

I'm using yum 2.0.5-1.centos.2, and python 2.2.3-5.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Dickson" <dickson at permanentmail.com>
To: "Yellowdog Updater, Modified" <yum at lists.dulug.duke.edu>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 3:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Yum] yum cancelling doesn't work ?


> On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 16:29:22 +0200, dan1 wrote:
>
> > Hi to all,
> >
> > I tried to cancel the execution of yum while it was downloading
something
> > (with ctrl-c), but it wasn't possible.
> > I find that annoying. Is this behaviour planned, or is it a bug ?
> > I am working on centOS 3.1, i386.
> >
> > If you need to forbid this possibility during the installation, you
could
> > perhaps allow it during the download process.
> >
> > Finally, it has stopped after having downloaded everything, but the
> > /var/run/yum.pid has been left after the cancel, and I wasn't able to
run
> > yum anymore. Now I just deleted this file and it seems OK.
> > Perhaps there is also a little bug this way.
>
> What version of yum and python are you using?
>
> The latest version I got from freshrpms aborts everything on a Ctl-C, with
> about 20 lines of a stack trace.  Previous versions would restart a
> download unless I pressed Ctl-C several times quickly.
>
> -Paul
>
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