On 04/01/2010 12:14, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Paul Allen Newell writes:
A quick question which is hopefully just "an education request" ...
While reinstalling f12 on a machine that I "messed up", I was
following all my notes and directions and reached the point where the
install was successful and it was time to update. I did a "su -l" and
then typed "yum update". I realized I had forgotten something and
immediately did a "control-C" in the terminal that I had executed the
"yum update". To my surprise, it ignored it until it got to the first
confirm and then proceeded to kill the process. No problem as the
update was stopped but ...
I though "control-C" was an immediate kill of whatever was running
and was wondering why yum didn't stop when I tried to kill it.
Probably because if you interrupt packages in the middle of updating,
you have an excellent chance of FUBARing your entire system.
This has been a long standing problem with rpm. If you interrupt a
long update, you'll end up with both the old and the new version of
affected packages installed. That's always fun to clean up.
Don't do that.
You have to hit Crtl-C twice! not just the once, and within' five
seconds of each other
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