chef

https://github.com/opscode/chef

Ruby

A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure.

Chef::Provider::Package::Yum#lock_package

NB: the yum_package provider manages individual single packages, please do not submit issues or PRs to try to add wildcard
support to lock / unlock.  The best solution is to write an execute resource which does a not_if `yum versionlock | grep '^pattern`` kind of approach

Source | Google | Stack overflow

Edit

git clone [email protected]:opscode/chef.git

cd chef

open lib/chef/provider/package/yum.rb

Contribute

# Make a new branch

git checkout -b -your-name--update-docs-Chef--Provider--Package--Yum-lock_package-for-pr

# Commit to git

git add lib/chef/provider/package/yum.rbgit commit -m "better docs for Chef::Provider::Package::Yum#lock_package"

# Open pull request

gem install hub # on a mac you can `brew install hub`

hub fork

git push <your name> -your-name--update-docs-Chef--Provider--Package--Yum-lock_package-for-pr

hub pull-request

# Celebrate!