ansible-aur

An Ansible module for installing AUR packages.

If cower is available, it will be used to download packages. Otherwise, cURL will be used. Packages are installed via makepkg.

Dependencies (Managed Node)

• Arch Linux (Obviously)
• cower (Optional)

Installation

1. Clone this repo
2. Copy or link the aur file into your global Ansible library (usually /usr/share/ansible) or into the ./library folder alongside your top-level playbook

Usage

Options

• name - required, name of the AUR package to install
• user - required, name of the user you want to install the package as
• dir - optional, name of the directory you want to download AUR packages into. If this is left blank, the module will try to use ~/aur for the specified user.
• skip_pgp - optional, whether makepkg should skip verification of PGP signatures of source files. Defaults to false. This may be useful when installing packages on a target node with no keyring established.

Examples

# Install package foo
- aur: name=foo user=someone

# Install package foo with a specific download directory
- aur: name=foo dir=/opt/packages/aur user=someone

# Install package foo without checking PGP signature
- aur: name=foo user=someone skip_pgp=yes

If you wouldn't like to install AUR packages by normal user, you can create a system user aurman (or another one which you like) as AUR manager:

- name: New user for AUR management
  user:
    name: aurman
    comment: "AUR manager"
    shell: /bin/nologin
    home: /var/lib/aurman
    system: yes