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pancho horrillo d03b72a505 Drop dependency on ansible (six.moves) As it is, aur.py depends on ansible being installed on the target host. So, you would need to get ansible installed in your target host just to be able to make use of aur.py and install whatever packages you need. Let's review the dependency: from ansible.module_utils import six from six.moves import urllib I reckon that the six¹ package is there to isolate an ansible module's code from the particular major version of python being used (2 or 3). Fortunately, since last week², the ansible package in archlinux now depends directly on python3, so I reckon that in this particular instance, we can safely import urllib.request directly, which from now on will be spot on. To recap, current arch ships python3, and the arch ansible package depends on it to run. aur.py's purpose is to run on archlinux hosts, thus, python3 can be safely assumed to be available. So we can depend directly on it and relax the dependency on ansible itself. On a personal note, I am using this nice module to help me bootstrap my arch systems, so not having to install ansible just to be able to use it makes my day a little better :-) Thanks a bunch! [Feel free to edit the commit log] [1]: https://pythonhosted.org/six/ [2]: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/ansible&id=bb1a1cc822891387d5a8b3dad0d0ccdee94c0c51	2018-05-22 06:04:42 +02:00
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pancho horrillo d03b72a505 Drop dependency on ansible (six.moves)

As it is, aur.py depends on ansible being installed on the target host.
So, you would need to get ansible installed in your target host just to be able
to make use of aur.py and install whatever packages you need.

Let's review the dependency:

      from ansible.module_utils import six
      from six.moves import urllib

I reckon that the six¹ package is there to isolate an ansible module's code from
the particular major version of python being used (2 or 3).

Fortunately, since last week², the ansible package in archlinux now depends
directly on python3, so I reckon that in this particular instance, we can safely
import urllib.request directly, which from now on will be spot on.

To recap, current arch ships python3, and the arch ansible package depends on it
to run.  aur.py's purpose is to run on archlinux hosts, thus, python3 can be
safely assumed to be available.  So we can depend directly on it and relax the
dependency on ansible itself.

On a personal note, I am using this nice module to help me bootstrap my arch
systems, so not having to install ansible just to be able to use it makes my day
a little better :-)

Thanks a bunch!

[Feel free to edit the commit log]

[1]: https://pythonhosted.org/six/
[2]: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/ansible&id=bb1a1cc822891387d5a8b3dad0d0ccdee94c0c51

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README.md

Ansible AUR helper

Ansible module to use some Arch User Repository (AUR) helpers as well as makepkg.

The following helpers are supported and automatically selected in the order they are listed:

makepkg will be used if no helper was found or if it's specified explicitly.

makepkg

Options

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
name	no			Name or list of names of the package(s) to install or upgrade.
upgrade	no	no	yes, no	Whether or not to upgrade whole system.
use	no	auto	auto, aurman, pacaur, trizen, pikaur, yaourt, yay, makepkg	The helper to use, 'auto' uses the first known helper found and makepkg as a fallback.
skip_installed	no	no	yes, no	Skip operations if the package is present.
skip_pgp_check	no	no	yes, no	Skip verification of PGP signatures. This is useful when installing packages on a host without GnuPG (properly) configured. Only valid with makepkg.

Note

Either name or upgrade is required, both cannot be used together.
skip_installed cannot be used with upgrade.
In the use=auto mode, makepkg is used as a fallback if no known helper is found.

Installing

Clone the ansibe-aur repository in your playbook custom-module directory:

mkdir --parents library
cd library
git clone git@github.com:kewlfft/ansible-aur.git

Link the script to library/aur:

ln --symbolic ansible-aur/aur.py aur

Usage

Note

This module aims to cover the AUR, for package removal or system upgrade with the repositories, it is recommended to use the official pacman module,
A package is reinstalled only if an update is available, using the --needed parameter, except for yay which does not support it and systematically reinstalls.

Examples

Use it in a task, as in the following examples:

# Install trizen using makepkg, skip if trizen is already installed
- aur: name=trizen use=makepkg skip_installed=true
  become: yes
  become_user: aur_builder

# Install package_name using the first known helper found
- aur: name=package_name
  ...

# Install package_name_1 and package_name_2 using trizen
- aur:
    use: trizen
    name:
      - package_name_1
      - package_name_2
  ...

# Upgrade - using pacaur
- aur: upgrade=yes use=pacaur
  ...

Create the "aur_builder" user

While Ansible expects to SSH as root, AUR helpers do not allow executing operations as root, they all fail with "you cannot perform this operation as root". It is therefore recommended to create a user, that we will call for example aur_builder, that has no need for password with pacman in sudoers. This can be done in Ansible with the following actions:

- user:
    name: aur_builder
    group: wheel
- lineinfile:
    path: /etc/sudoers.d/11-install-aur_builder
    line: 'aur_builder ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/pacman'
    create: yes
    validate: 'visudo -cf %s'