puppet-augeasproviders_sysctl

• Add support for Puppet 6
• Deprecate support for Puppet < 5
• Update supported OSes in metadata.json

• Fix puppet requirement to < 7.0.0

• Add Archlinux support (GH #38)
• Use : as separator on FreeBSD (fix #24) (GH #30)
• Do not manage comment when persist is false (fix #29) (GH #31)

• Add support for:
  • Debian 10
  • EL 8

• Force data read from 'sysctl -a' into ASCSII (GH #46)

• FreeBSD: skip read-only MIB data (GH #48)

This release adds support for Puppet 5 as well as Oracle Enterprise Linux.

This release adds a feature that protects against sysctl values which, when set in /etc/sysctl.conf, may cause operational harm to a system.

The ability has been added to only update the live value and make the disk persistence optional.

Additionally:

• Now use prefetching to get the sysctl values
• Updated self.instances to obtain information about all sysctl values
  which provides a more accurate representation of the system when using
  puppet resource
• Fail if the user attempts to set a value that is not valid on the
  system unless silent is set.
• Updated all tests

New Features

• Added a :silent option for deliberately ignoring failures when applying the live sysctl settings. This is particularly useful when you have sysctl settings that may not be present without loading a kernel module over which you have no control.

Other Changes

• Added acceptance tests