Basic Patching Script

[EL_Beginner]

Hello,

I have a few low importance utility servers running CentOS 6.6 x64 .They are basically just used as SSH jump boxes and a few little utilities installed here and there. I'd like them to just go ahead and patch themselves when ever they feel like it. I really don't care if they break, go down or anything like that. The challenge is that there is 1 package in our repos that I don't want them updating since our config management system manages that package and just immediately downgrades it.

Here is what I started with.

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host=`hostname`
yum clean all
yum update -y
logger "app=patching start=true host=$host message=host_was_patched"

Seemed simple enough. But what I need to is an exception to the package "facter". It appears there is an -x option on yum, but I can see this getting out of hand quick if I add a lot of packages later? Any thoughts on how best to tackle this? Any existing tools/scripts I am overlooking?

[skesterson]

How about this?

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echo "exclude=facter*" >> /etc/yum.conf

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