YUM__Skip broken

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Skip broken is a feature in yum to skip packages from the transaction there have dependecy problems or introduce problems to the installed packages

How to use

add the '--skip-broken' option to the yum command line to activate the skip broken feature.

yum update --skip-broken

Helping to make it better

If there is a situation where skip broken bail out then please check the upstream yum version to help make it better.

git clone http://yum.baseurl.org/git/yum.git
cd yum
git checkout --track -b yum-3_2_X origin/yum-3_2_X
sudo ./yummain.py --skip-broken -d7 <the yum command causing troubles>

please at a ticket on this site or on http://bugzilla.redhat.com if you are running Fedora