[Yum] suggestion: CTRL-C should immediately stop yum

Kenneth Porter shiva at sewingwitch.com
Wed Sep 13 15:19:31 UTC 2006


On Wednesday, September 13, 2006 12:08 AM -0400 "Robert G. Brown" 
<rgb at phy.duke.edu> wrote:

> Or how about trapping Esc or better yet, tab to try next mirror.  I
> agree that Ctrl-C should kill, and it really needs to die as gracefully
> as possible.  If it prints any message, it should be something like
> "Complete current download Y/N?" and it should clean up any partial
> downloads either way.

I agree that Ctrl-C should bring the system to a stop.

Can Yum resume partial downloads? If not, it should always remove the 
partial file and exit. Otherwise leave the partial file on the disk and 
exit, allowing the next run to resume the download.





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