https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=307364#c7
--- Comment #7 from Stefan Hundhammer
Btw. it would be really nice to see some emergency abort feature (skip the current and the rest) and emergency rollback (skip current + rest, but rollback all installed in current session).
I am afraid rollback is very much out of reach (albeit often requested to uninstall patches, for example): There is no reliable way to undo whatever any of those pre-install or post-install (or pre-uninstall / post-uninstall) scripts did. This is a problem of how RPM works in principle.
One way or the other, "power off" is NOT the method of choice if something goes wrong on a Linux system.
I am not taking about unplugging it, power off button is a normal and convenient way to shutdown the system. It works exactly the same if I press ctrl+alt+del and choose "shutdown".
Right. Which is yet another not-method-of-choice to fix problems under Linux. ;-)
And about going wrong -- what choice did I have, if I am missing something please let me know (waiting ~12 hours is not acceptable for me).
The time estimate is just that: An estimate. If your connection is very slow but then becomes quicker after a while, the initial estimate may be way off. There is no real way to predict how long a package download and installation will take, yet it was requested so often that we were forced to implement something that really is completely bogus: We wait for a while (1 min) and watch the data transfer rate during this time and then extrapolate that to the remaining packages. This of course assumes that the transfer rate will remain the same, which may or may not be the case. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.