Ansible Role: pacman

Ansible role to configure pacman.

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Further development of this Ansible role has been moved to Collection bodsch.core. This repository will therefore no longer be actively maintained.

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tested operating systems

• ArchLinux
• ArtixLinux

Contribution

Please read Contribution

Development, Branches (Git Tags)

The master Branch is my Working Horse includes the "latest, hot shit" and can be complete broken!

If you want to use something stable, please use a Tagged Version!

Configuration

There are pre-defined values for Arch Linux and Artix Linux.

pacman_config: {}

pacman_options: {}

pacman_repositories: {}

pacman_mirrors: {}

pacman_custom_mirrors: []

pacman_config

documentation

pacman_config:
  root_dir: "/"
  db_path: /var/lib/pacman/
  cache_dir: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
  log_file: /var/log/pacman.log
  gpg_dir: /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
  hook_dir: /etc/pacman.d/hooks/
  hold_pkg:
    - pacman
    - glibc
  xfer_command: /usr/bin/curl -s -L -C - -f -o %o %u
  clean_method: KeepInstalled
  architecture: auto
  ignore_pkg: []
  ignore_group: []
  no_upgrade: []
  no_extract: []

  use_syslog: true
  color: true
  no_progress_bar: true
  check_space: true
  verbose_pkg_lists: false
  parallel_downloads: 5

  sig_level:
    - Required
    - DatabaseOptional
  local_file_sig_level:
    - Optional
  remote_file_sig_level:
    - Required

pacman_config

pacman_options:
  no_extract:
    - "usr/share/help/* !usr/share/help/en*"
    - "usr/share/gtk-doc/html/* usr/share/doc/*"
    - "usr/share/locale/* usr/share/X11/locale/* usr/share/i18n/*"
    - "!*locale*/en*/* !usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8.gz !usr/share/*locale*/locale.*"
    - "!usr/share/*locales/en_?? !usr/share/*locales/i18n* !usr/share/*locales/iso*"
    - "!usr/share/*locales/trans*"
    - "usr/share/man/* usr/share/info/*"
    - "usr/share/vim/vim*/lang/*"

pacman_repositories

documentation

Package and Database Signature Checking

Artix Support

pacman_repositories:
  custom:
    enabled: false
    sig_level:
      - Optional
      - TrustAll
    server: file:///home/custompkgs
    usage:
      - All

  core:
    enabled: true
    include: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

  extra:
    enabled: true
    include: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

  community-testing:
    enabled: false
    include: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

  community:
    enabled: true
    include: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

pacman_mirrors

pacman_mirrors:
  "Default mirrors":
    enabled: true
    servers:
      - https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch
      - https://mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
      - https://mirror.leaseweb.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

  "Europe - Germany":
    enabled: true
    servers:
      - https://mirror.netcologne.de/artix-linux/$repo/os/$arch
      - http://mirrors.redcorelinux.org/artixlinux/$repo/os/$arch
      - https://mirror.pascalpuffke.de/artix-linux/$repo/os/$arch
      - https://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/linux/artix-linux/$repo/os/$arch

pacman_custom_mirrors

pacman_custom_mirrors:
  - file: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-arch
    "ARCH MIRRORS":
      enabled: false
      servers:
        - http://mirror.i3d.net/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

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Author and License

• Bodo Schulz

License

Apache

FREE SOFTWARE, HELL YEAH!