default path to file sysctl.conf is incompatible with debian 13 and possibly also fedora, redhat

[lelutin]

/etc/sysctl.conf is not used anymore if systemd-sysctl is installed so one has to symlink that file inside /etc/sysctl.d/ for it become used. see sysctl.d(5)

Instead of the symlink workaround, it would be better if this module could expose a class parameter that would let us configure the absolute path to the file on disk. This way we could have puppet manage a file inside /etc/sysctl.d/ directly

[lelutin]

oh! never mind this issue. a colleague pointed me to

puppet-sysctl/manifests/value.pp

Line 16 in 847ec1c

Optional[Sysctl::Unixpath] $target = undef,

which is exactly what I was asking for.

I was confused about the sysctl::base class always creating the file /etc/sysctl.conf. But that's not an issue if we can redirect actual configuration options to a place where they'll get read.

sorry for the noise!

[lelutin]

I'm actually going to reopen this issue and re-title it to make its focus clearer.

While there is a workaround for this as mentioned before, the issue here is that the default value in https://github.com/duritong/puppet-sysctl/blob/master/lib/puppet/provider/sysctl/parsed.rb#L3 is not compatible with the default state of things for debian 13. And I surmise that the same is true for redhat and any other distro that started using systemd's systemd-sysctl

Would it make sense to change the default path for the sysctl.conf configuration file?