itiut.pacman

Ansible role for installing pacman packages.

Requirements

• Python 2
• Ansible 1.9 or higher

Role Variables

Role variables are in defaults/main.yml.

pacman_update (default: true)

Whether to update caches or not: true or false.

pacman_install_state (default: present)

A state of installing (or installed) packages: present or latest.

pacman_install (default: [])

An array of packages to install.

pacman_remove (default: [])

An array of packages to remove.

Example Playbook

- hosts: localhost
  vars:
    pacman_install:
    - emacs
    - vim
    - zsh
  roles:
  - { role: itiut.pacman, tags: pacman }

Notes

python2 is required to run Ansible 1.9 but python is linked to python3 on Arch Linux. So setting ansible_python_interpreter to python2 is required.

In inventory:

[localhost:vars]
ansible_python_interpreter=python2

Or in playbook:

- host: localhost
  vars:
    ansible_python_interpreter: python2

License

MIT