Issues with yum

[Chris Murphy]

On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:02 AM, John Reiser wrote:

> On 02/28/2012 08:51 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
>> *shrug* OK I'm not going to deny you a feature. I still don't understand
>> why it would be started in the first place if you didn't intend to finish it.
> 
> The Fedora mirror system doesn't always behave nicely
> (timeouts, bad sync, slow transfer rate, ...)
> I find that SIGINT is appropriate about once per week
> just for downloads.

Well I sure love eating crow. I have in fact hit control-c in the case where a slow mirror (like, dial-up modem slow) was even delaying the database update. 10 minutes later, still no idea if there were any applicable updates available. But control-c during that initial database updating for me has always been instant kill and drop to a prompt. Retrying, nothing is inconsistent, and I'm connected to a  much faster mirror 100% of the time. So at least that instance of control-c appears to work.

Chris Murphy