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?
“Easier“, no. Not for the average person on the street.
Don't get me wrong, I've built several NAS over the years (dropped OMV for just Arch and the packages I want) and loaded OpenWRT (etc) on routers
But, building my own NAS, servicing my own car, repairing my own house, felling my own trees, at some point I'll just lack knowledge and buy something simple / pay someone to do it... and that's where cheap consumer electronics fits (unfortunately)