control-c in yum

[rana]

hi!

i switched my laptop to f11, and i found that yum changed its interpretation of control-c

in other systems (Centos4 and Centos5 for instance), it switches to another download mirror. Now, in f11 it terminates yum

I like the termination thing (for some reason the double control-c to terminate it's quite tricky), but i couldn't find how to produce the old 'use other mirror'

does anybody know what key produces 'use other mirror other than the one you're using right now' ?


thanks in advance,
Rana

[scott32746]

Hello,
in /etc/yum.repos.d for each repo you need to set mirror to
enabled=1

[10sdassarma]

fastmirror plugin should automatically do this.

[rana]

Originally Posted by scott32746

Hello,
in /etc/yum.repos.d for each repo you need to set mirror to
enabled=1

the mirrors are working, i want yum to change mirrors 'on the fly'

---------- Post added at 07:10 AM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 07:08 AM CDT ----------

Originally Posted by 10sdassarma

fastmirror plugin should automatically do this.

i do have fastmirror plugin installed, i want to manually switch to the next mirror while yum is running. It use to work that way with control-c

[10sdassarma]

rana, see this: http://osdir.com/ml/fedora-list/2010-01/msg00423.html

[rana]

Originally Posted by 10sdassarma

rana, see this: http://osdir.com/ml/fedora-list/2010-01/msg00423.html

that message refers to the old way yum use to function: one control-c switches mirror, two control-c quits. The response refers to a plugin that i don't find in the standard repositories, nor in rpm.pbone.net. I find it in the author's page, but the most recent version is for f8


thanks,
Rana

[10sdassarma]

You can only downgrade, I'm afraid. I may write a patch to get this useful behaviour back, but don't hold your breath.

[rana]

Originally Posted by 10sdassarma

You can only downgrade, I'm afraid. I may write a patch to get this useful behaviour back, but don't hold your breath.

thank you very much for your offer, but i prefer to have a mainstream yum. It's not a big deal anyway

[kurtdriver]

Ctrl-X does it for me in Fedora 13
What I'd like to know is how to kill it so I can restart it. Yum or Packagekit is always holding the lock and I end up running kill -9 pid. Sorry for hijacking the thread.

[rana]

Originally Posted by kurtdriver

Ctrl-X does it for me in Fedora 13
What I'd like to know is how to kill it so I can restart it. Yum or Packagekit is always holding the lock and I end up running kill -9 pid. Sorry for hijacking the thread.

control-x doesn't appear to do that in F11. It's strange, running with '-v' option, and hitting control-c during rpm download, it says: 'Trying other mirror.', and immediately yum ends