As the title says, I'm wondering if anyone has experience managing AUR packages with Ansible. I'm personally interested in nginx-passenger, but the question could really apply to any AUR package. Unlike official packages, AUR packages have to be built by the user, which introduces a slew of problems:
- knowing when to build the package. I'd say it's pretty much a given that the package has to be built on the target system. However, I'm provisioning ARM single-board computers with Ansible, and compiling nginx on a system with a 1GHz processor and 1GB of memory is a painful experience. I don't want to do it any more often than necessary. - knowing whether or not the package is installed, and whether or not the installed version is up to date. The existing pacman module in Ansible (thumbs up for actually having a module, by the way. as an Arch user I was glad to see it) can query if a package is installed via state=present, but if the package isn't installed then it will obviously try to install it. That will fail because AUR packages aren't hosted on official repositories. Any thoughts or suggestions? One thing I just thought of, while writing this, was to set up yaourt on the target system, since it would seamlessly integrate AUR installation, but I have literally zero experience with yaourt. Plus this kind of introduces a chicken-and-egg problem - to install one AUR package, I first have to install another AUR package, which goes right back to the original issue. I do speak a little python, so I'm not averse to submitting a PR for this issue, if someone has a good idea for how to implement it. I'm at a loss for now. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/41c041b8-7a5a-4190-87e2-01a4e470c9a5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
