On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 18:37 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Spotted while looking at something related: commit 
> e95f16d8342bc4dcdfde6b8858a8704bc4c1bdf8 causes yum to hold the rpmdb 
> open throughout the remaing package downloads after first signature 
> check happens. Which wont exactly help catching ctrl-c in timely manner...
> 
> Perhaps the simplest bandaid would be adding an optional argument 
> sigCheckPkg() to automatically nuke the ts after checking and use it for 
> the call from within downloadPkgs(). The downside of this is that it'll 
> cause a bunch of rpmdb re-re-re-opens, depending on the number of repos 
> and their config. There's no helping that with rpm 4.4.x, but with >= 
> 4.6.x rpm doesn't actually need the database for signature checking, it 
> uses an in-memory keyring which is only initially populated from the 
> database.
> 
> I'll try to come up with a remotely sane way to take advantage of the 
> behavior in newer versions when available (I've a patch but its just too 
> gross for public consumption), just thought I'd let you know of the 
> issue in case you find even more people are complaining about ctrl-c 
> behavior :)

they are, thank you for finding this.

out of curiosity - HOW did you track it down?
-sv


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