nasty hack around broken yum archive dependancy blockages

[seth vidal]

> In saying that, it should auto-exclude dependency trees that are
> blocking "yum update" while still maintaining a sane rpm database ...
> but I make no guarantees.
> 
> I would love to see this kind of functionality folded into the -t option
> of yum so that "yum -t update" will update those dependency-trees it
> *can* and skip things it can't find dependencies for.
> 
> Here it is ... use at your own risk and I would invite anyone with more
> sh-ability than me (i.e. almost everyone) to improve on the terrors
> outlined above:
> 

So just to be sure I understand. You take the list of updateable pkgs,
and you iterate over each one until you can't update anything completely
anymore. Is that right?

-sv