Whenever I try to install something on CentOS (release 7.8.2003, installed via epel) etckeeper pre/auto commit ll get stuck mostly on pre commit. I also got one server where post commit fails me, but on there one I can just abort the command.

Transaction Summary
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Upgrade  11 Packages

Total size: 835 M
Downloading packages:
Running transaction check
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded
Running transaction
etckeeper: pre transaction commit
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yum-3.4.3-167.el7.centos.noarch
yum-utils-1.1.31-54.el7_8.noarch
yum-plugin-fastestmirror-1.1.31-54.el7_8.noarch
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.4-10.el7.x86_64
etckeeper-1.18.14-1.el7.noarch
git-1.8.3.1-23.el7_8.x86_64

For now, the workaround is to disable the yum-plugin with the config file /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/etckeeper.conf