base

Install and configure basic system tools.

Requirements

This role requires the kewlfft.aur role and the community.general collection.

Root access is also required, so either run it in a playbook with a global become: true, or invoke the role in your playbook like:

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - role: marcstraube.base
      become: true

Role variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

base_enable_multilib: true

Whether to enable the multilib repository. This is needed for 32-bit support.

base_custom_repositories: []

List of custom repositories. You can add them like this:

base_custom_repositories:
  - name: 'alerque'
    server: 'https://arch.alerque.com/$arch'
    key_id: '63CC496475267693'

You can find a list of custom repositories at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/unofficial_user_repositories

base_mirrors_countries: []

List of countries for the pacman mirrorlist

base_mirrors_sort: 'rate'

Mirror sorting mechanism for Reflector. Possible values are age, rate, country, score or delay.

aur_build_user: 'aur_builder'

User to run the AUR helper as.

The aur_build_user has to execute pacman without password, for which the sudoers file /etc/sudoers.d/11-aur_builder will be created.

If you use the provided default value aur_builder, a system user with this name will be created. If you provide another username, you have to make sure that this user already exists, is a member of the wheel group and is allowed to run pacman with password-less sudo.

The aur_build_user variable is used in all my other roles that build packages from the AUR.

base_aur_helper: 'paru'

AUR helper to be installed. Possible values are paru, yay, pacaur, trizen or pikaur.

base_aur_packager: ''
base_aur_gpg_key: ''

Packager settings.

base_aur_dev_tools: true

Wheter to install AUR developer tools. These come handy, if you maintain your own packages in the AUR.

base_kernel: 'linux'

Possible values: linux, linux-hardened, linux-lts or linux-zen.

base_packages:
  - 'base'
  - 'bash-completion'
  - 'hdparm'
  - 'htop'
  - 'iproute2'
  - 'man-db'
  - 'man-pages'
  - 'mlocate'
  - 'multitail'
  - 'neovim'
  - 'pkgfile'
  - 'texinfo'
  - 'tmux'
  - 'wget'
  - 'vifm'

List of basic system packages to be installed.

base_aur_packages:
- 'ancient-packages'
- 'aurvote'
- 'nvimpager-git'

List of basic system packages to be installed from the AUR.

Example Playbook

- hosts: 'all'
  become: true
  roles:
    - 'marcstraube.base'

License

GPLv3