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Description of problem: When retrieving yum repository information about F17 main/updates/updates-testing repositories, there is a progress bar in the middle of the screen that can't be canceled. If some repository is extremely slow to respond, you have no other way than to wait. Yesterday I had to wait 30 minutes to load a SINGLE repository information. It was a frustrating experience. Users might be afraid that if they hard reset their computer to cancel this infinite waiting, their data might get corrupted (after all, their partitions are already mounted). Anaconda or yum should be intelligent enough to switch to a faster repository if the current one is too slow. Or use a yum-plugin-fastestmirror. Also, anaconda should offer user *at least* a possibility to cancel current process. An option to try out a different repository would be even better. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda 17.9 How reproducible: hard Steps to Reproduce: 1. you have to be lucky and yum has to pick a repository that is extremely slow but not dead, or you have to set up this kind of repository yourself Actual results: you might get stuck almost forever Expected results: you should be able to get unstuck, even if it means to cancel everything
Our packaging code is not at all designed to work in this way, and adding it is very non-trivial. Given the relatively infrequent nature of this problem, I can't see us getting to it.