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.

• Arch Linux (Obviously)
• cower (Optional)

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

• 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.

# 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