Unable to exclude multiple packages in yum.conf

[nmaludy]

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet: 3.8.7
• Ruby: ruby 2.0.0p648 (2015-12-16) [x86_64-linux
• Distribution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.4 (Maipo)
• Module version: 0.10.0

How to reproduce (e.g Puppet code you use)

I'm trying to exclude multiple packages in /etc/yum.conf. The man page for yum.conf says that this must be a space separated list of values, so i tried the following:

yum::config { 'exclude':
  ensure => 'openmotif* compat-libstdc*'
}

What are you seeing

Only the first element is being put into the config.

[main]
exclude=openmotif*
cachedir=/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
installonly_limit=3

What behaviour did you expect instead

A config file with the full string i specified for exclude:

[main]
exclude=openmotif* compat-libstdc*'
cachedir=/var/cache/yum/$basearch/$releasever
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1
installonly_limit=3

Output log

Any additional information you'd like to impart

[joekohlsdorf]

This was fixed by commit 80af8a4, issue can be closed.

[bastelfreak]

Thanks for letting us know @joekohlsdorf !