My favorite pet bug (2004): Yum mishandles Ctrl-C

[Callum Lerwick]

On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 10:14 +0100, José Matos wrote:
> On Friday 01 September 2006 10:01, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > BTW, at least on FC4 and FC5 yum, hitting Ctrl-C will switch mirror just
> > file, but will abort the yum operation once the download is complete.
> > (Without installing the packages)
> 
>   I saw too. It switches mirror, loads the files and after all the downloads 
> it exits.

Yeah its been doing this for a while. This just makes the "switch to
another mirror" feature make even less sense. Why would anyone want it
to switch to another mirror, but then NOT install the packages?

The ability to force a mirror switch is handy, but ctrl-c is the wrong
key for it. How about escape instead?
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