package_manager

Configures pacman and makepkg on Arch Linux and CachyOS. The packages role installs packages afterwards, so multilib is ready before it runs.

Requirements

Arch Linux or CachyOS. The tasks skip other distributions.
Privilege escalation (become: true).

Role Variables

Variable	Default	Description
`package_manager_pacman_progress_options`	`[ILoveCandy, PrettyProgressBar]` on CachyOS, `[ILoveCandy]`	Progress bar options set in `/etc/pacman.conf`.

packages_upgrade_system (from the packages role) is read too: see below.

pacman

The role sets Color, CheckSpace, ParallelDownloads = 5 and the progress options in /etc/pacman.conf, and enables the standard multilib repository. Enabling multilib triggers pacman -Syu, which synchronizes the package databases and upgrades the installed packages.

Tags: pacman, pacman_config. The packages, packages_install, packages_reconcile and yay tags run it too, since installation needs it.

makepkg

makepkg builds for the local CPU (native flags) without generating separate debug packages. A package built this way may not run on a different CPU.

Tags: makepkg, makepkg_config, system.

make deploy TAGS=makepkg BECOME_PASS=1

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: all
  become: true
  roles:
    - role: package_manager
      tags: [package_manager]

License

Unlicense

Author Information

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