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Similar conflict issues

The files that are experiencing conflict issues are almost all the same as the ones in the link above. However, I am not trying to install php56w...etc like the person who posted the question in the link, I am just trying to yum update.

I want to know how to resolve the conflicts to complete my yum update.

Transaction Summary
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Install      31 Package(s)
Upgrade     334 Package(s)

Total size: 282 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test


Transaction Check Error:
  file /opt/rh/httpd24/root/etc/httpd/conf.d/README conflicts between attempted installs of httpd24-httpd-2.4.34-18.el6.x86_64 and httpd-2.2.15-69.el6.centos.x86_64
  file /opt/rh/httpd24/root/etc/httpd/conf/magic conflicts between attempted installs of httpd24-httpd-2.4.34-18.el6.x86_64 and httpd-2.2.15-69.el6.centos.x86_64
  file /opt/rh/httpd24/root/etc/httpd/logs conflicts between attempted installs of httpd24-httpd-2.4.34-18.el6.x86_64 and httpd-2.2.15-69.el6.centos.x86_64
  file /opt/rh/httpd24/root/etc/httpd/modules conflicts between attempted installs of httpd24-httpd-2.4.34-18.el6.x86_64 and httpd-2.2.15-69.el6.centos.x86_64
  file /opt/rh/httpd24/root/etc/httpd/run conflicts between attempted installs of httpd24-httpd-2.4.34-18.el6.x86_64 and httpd-2.2.15-69.el6.centos.x86_64

Error Summary

Originally, httpd was installed and due to security reasons httpd24 was installed at a later date. (I was not around during the time of the original installations). Currently, I do not know the reason behind the conflicts.

yum was also being blocked before this happened by a broken repo. I tried using the argument --disablerepo=<nameofrepo> to fix this but for some reason, it didn't work and I directly disabled it in the repo by changing enable=1 to enable=0. It was recommended here.

I wanted to learn more and found this article but it is subscriber-read-only by RH.

Is the only way to go about fixing this deleting or replacing the files as mentioned here?

Albeit the first answer's first few lines state:

Replacing files from another RPM package is bad idea in most cases and I strongly advise against what you're trying to do. That said, apply following at your own risk.

If possible, I want to resolve the conflicts rather than use a destructive method.

For various reasons/limitations I cannot make new groups in the inventory file and need to use --limit/-l to specify the hosts.

I was told to do something like:

ansible-playbook -i /path/to/my/inventory/file.ini -l server.1.com server.2.com my-playbook.yml --check --diff

This was throwing an error:

ERROR! the playbook: server.2.com could not be found

From the Ansible Documentation on this subject I found that you could use a separate file to list all the hosts you want to limit. Something like:

ansible-playbook -i /path/to/my/inventory/file.ini -l @list-to-limit.txt my-playbook.yml

However, I need to do it all inline without creating an additional file.