Description of problem: Been experimenting with FC6t1, and finally found a subset of updates it didn't complain about dependency errors on, but once it started the update and put up the "Downloading packages" dialog with the progress bar, the windows froze. It never indicated any progress or refreshed any window while doing the (extremely long) downloads. Only by running a network monitor or looking at the /var/cache/yum directories could I tell anything was happening. This was all immediately following an install off the DVD, so the versions of software involved are whatever was shipped with FC6t1.
Does the same thing happen with FC5?, I noticed that the progress bar for pirut an d pup only updates when a package finishes downloading(this is because they didn't use multithreading for the progress bar so it blocks on the download).
Don't know. I suppose I could give it a try next time I update my FC5 system (but I normally use yumex on FC5 and would on FC6 as well if only it worked :-).
Multithreading isn't the only answer here... we should be getting proper callbacks so that we can do updates without needing a thread. I'll look into what's going wrong on the download side.
Callbacks weren't being set up properly in yum, fixed in yum cvs