[Yum] Re: Horrible response to keyboardInterrupt

[CAI Qian]

Hi,

--- Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 18:56 -0700, CAI Qian wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > --- Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > > CAI Qian wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Maybe we should rewrite it in C to get better performance?
> > > 
> > > Oh oh, cobol, wait... fortran.  yeah, that's fast.  
> > > 
> > 
> > If using a wrong language and caused usability issues, it probably
> need
> > to fix. Otherwise, it is too late when users are going to switch to
> > apt/dpkg to have better usability. We are simply out of the game.
> > 
> 
> Here's another option, Cai, read back a bit on where this issue comes
> from before acting like the world is going to come to an end.
> 
> okay?
> 
> Let's start from the top:
>  what was yum doing when you noticed the problem?
> 

Yum was trying to download RPMs. It looks like it was executing the
following function (base.doTransaction -> self.downloadPkgs ->
po.repo.getPackage -> self._getFile),

  def _make_request(self, req, opener):

in

  urlgrabber-3.0.0/urlgrabber/grabber.py

Cai Qian

> -sv
> 
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