Merge 34b467719e into 12a1c25f5e

Update azure-pipelines for new RHEL versions

SUMMARY

Change to the CI system annnounced in the following required this change:
ansible-collections/news-for-maintainers#47

.azure-pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml

@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@ stages:
           targets:
             - name: CentOS 7
               test: centos7
-            - name: Fedora 37
+            - name: Fedora 38
-              test: fedora37
+              test: fedora38
             - name: openSUSE 15 py3
               test: opensuse15
             - name: Ubuntu 20.04
@@ -213,14 +213,14 @@ stages:
               test: macos/13.2
             - name: RHEL 7.9
               test: rhel/7.9
-            - name: RHEL 8.7
+            - name: RHEL 8.8
-              test: rhel/8.7
+              test: rhel/8.8
-            - name: RHEL 9.1
+            - name: RHEL 9.2
-              test: rhel/9.1
+              test: rhel/9.2
             - name: FreeBSD 12.4
               test: freebsd/12.4
-            - name: FreeBSD 13.1
+            - name: FreeBSD 13.2
-              test: freebsd/13.1
+              test: freebsd/13.2
   - stage: Remote_2_15
     displayName: Remote 2.15
     dependsOn: []

changelogs/fragments/206_fix_sysctl_to_work_on_symlinks.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+- sysctl - fix sysctl to work properly on symlinks (https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.posix/issues/111).

changelogs/fragments/477_ci_update.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+trivial:
+  - "Drop Python3.9 and update versions of RHEL,Fedora and FreeBSD for ansible-core:devel test(https://github.com/ansible-collections/ansible.posix/issues/476)."

plugins/modules/sysctl.py

@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ class SysctlModule(object):
     # Completely rewrite the sysctl file
     def write_sysctl(self):
         # open a tmp file
-        fd, tmp_path = tempfile.mkstemp('.conf', '.ansible_m_sysctl_', os.path.dirname(self.sysctl_file))
+        fd, tmp_path = tempfile.mkstemp('.conf', '.ansible_m_sysctl_', os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(self.sysctl_file)))
         f = open(tmp_path, "w")
         try:
             for l in self.fixed_lines:
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ class SysctlModule(object):
         f.close()
 
         # replace the real one
-        self.module.atomic_move(tmp_path, self.sysctl_file)
+        self.module.atomic_move(tmp_path, os.path.realpath(self.sysctl_file))
 
 
 # ==============================================================

tests/utils/shippable/shippable.sh

@@ -145,9 +145,7 @@ function cleanup
         fi
 
         if [ "${process_coverage}" ]; then
-            # use python 3.9 for coverage to avoid running out of memory during coverage xml processing
+            python3 -m venv ~/ansible-venv
-            # only use it for coverage to avoid the additional overhead of setting up a virtual environment for a potential no-op job
-            virtualenv --python /usr/bin/python3.9 ~/ansible-venv
             set +ux
             . ~/ansible-venv/bin/activate
             set -ux