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According to @ichilton in issue #2, packer fills up /tmp, and although supposedly it obeys the TMPDIR environment variable to change where it builds, supplying this through Ansible doesn't appear to transfer through to packer.

1. Figure out why setting TMPDIR doesn't affect packer behavior
2. Either make the Ansible-set environment variable pass through, or provide a way to force it through via a module argument.
3. Figure out if there's a good reason packer isn't cleaning up after itself.
4. Make the module clean up after itself. Might want to make this optional.

Hi, I thanks for this package. The README promises what I looked for. However when I try to use it (I did put the script in /usr/share/ansible/packaging/packer I get the following error when I run a playbook on localhost:

failed: [localhost] => {"failed": true, "parsed": false}
invalid output was:   File "/root/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1413837396.47-165857690078709/packer", line 527
    except OSError, e:                                                                                                                                                      
                  ^                                                                                                                                                         
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

If I run the folowing with sudo:

- name: install pkgname
  packer: name=pkgname

I get this error message:

failed: [user@host] => (item=pkgname) => {"failed": true, "item": "pkgname"}
msg: failed to install package pkgname, because: makepkg: invalid option '--asroot'

This is because with version 4.2.0 of makepkg the "--asroot" parameter has been removed.
(https://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/NEWS#n57)

If I run it without sudo it hangs forever, waiting for a password.

/tmp running out of free space is especially likely when using Packer with Ansible (full system installs).

Would it be possible to trash /tmp/packerbuild-1000/* after each (successful or failed) installation of a package?

Thanks for looking into this!