[Yum] How to stop downloading?

Menno Smits menno-yum at freshfoo.com
Wed Sep 6 08:49:12 UTC 2006


seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 16:42 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Is there a graceful way to tell yum to stop when you realize it is
>> not going to complete in some reasonable amount of time?  By 'graceful'
>> I mean don't retry every possible mirror for each of the remaining
>> 200+ updates it is planning to get before actually stopping...
> 
> yum 2.9.6 should resolve that.
> 
> hit ctrl-c, twice, quickly.
> 
> that will exit.
> -sv

To clarify, hitting CTRL-C once will abort the download from the current 
mirror and move to the next one. Hitting CTRL-C twice in quick 
succession will quit Yum.

Menno



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