Exclude httpd from yum update

[mbloch1986]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We need to exclude certain packages e.g. httpd or puppet-agent from beeing updated when a yum update runs e.g. Amazon-Linux2 OS startup

Describe the solution you'd like
Exclude some packages from beeing updated via yum

[mbloch1986]

More infos about how to exclude packages from beeing updated via yum can be found here

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/10185

[mbloch1986]

Obviously there's a puppet module for it

yum::config { 'exclude': ensure => 'httpd puppet*' }

https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-yum

What should we do:

• Try upgrading to a more recent version of that puppet module
• Try adding the above piece of code to the config init manifest
• Add more packages to the xclude list