yum --skip-broken update infinite loop in Rawhide

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:17:08 +0000,
  "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> My laptop running Rawhide enters a seemingly infinite loop when I try
> to yum --skip-broken update.  A log from yum is here:
> 
>   http://www.annexia.org/tmp/yum.txt
> 
> Any ideas?

I have seen this in messy situations. For example, yum updating to F11
was a real pain before the python dependencies got fixed. Skip broken
couldn't do anything reasonable, so there was a lot of work to do by hand.