Issues with yum

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On 02/27/2012 11:44 AM, Sandro Mani wrote:
> 
will leave your system in a state where manual cleanup is likely
>> required.
> One scenario which I often hit is forgetting to change the proxy
> settings in yum.conf and then trying to update. Yum will clearly fail to
> download repodata, but it will keep trying for all mirrors it knows.
> Pressing ctrl+c there almost never works since yum only reacts to the
> signal when it is sent exactely in the instant between when it gave up
> downloading from one mirror due to timeout and beginning attempting to
> download from the next.

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