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AUR with Ansible (feddit.uk)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've started looking at Ansible to manage all the laptops, VMs, SBCs that I have running Arch Got the ol' pacman installs / updates working fine, but I'm having some problems understanding how to setup AUR to install some of those packages.

Main issue is where Ansible is basically doing everything as root, and AUR helpers don't want to run as root, so ok, create a 2nd non-root user first...

But even installing an AUR helper (yay) brings problems:

I can setup a folder in /tmp/aur , I can git clone the yay package, but then I have no idea how to run makepkg or then yay as that non-root user.

Does anyone have this already figured out?

Or... am I going about this the wrong way?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

If your non-root user has sudo access, then it should be as easy as making your Ansible playbook log in as the non-root user by default, and then use Ansible's become for anything that needs to run with sudo.