How to lock a package or software in RedHat.

# For RHEL 5
yum install yum-versionlock
# For RHEL 6 and 7
yum install yum-plugin-versionlock
# For RHEL 8 and 9
yum install python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock

Locking a package

yum versionlock gcc-*

List locked packages

yum versionlock list