how to stop yum update -

[Suvayu Ali]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 04:08:47AM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> 
>    I've run into this problem before. My ISP appears to have some early
>    morning problem and when I start yum update it simply keeps trying
>    to find another update. I can live with that and just try again
>    later but there is no graceful way to tell yum to stop!
> 

Please do not kill it as advised in the other response to the thread.
You could corrupt your package database.

You can simply hit Ctrl+c; yum/python is smart enough to under stand the
user is trying to cancel.  If it is downloading somehting, it will say
to hit Ctrl+c again within 20s to confirm (or something along those
lines), after the second Ctrl+c yum quits gracefully.

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Suvayu

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