Paru

Setting up paru

Installing AUR packages with paru is a bit tricky, as root isn’t allowed to build packages.

The current way to work around this is to create a dedicated user, which will run paru for root. It needs to be able to call pacman though, so there’s a bit of setup that needs to be done.

At this point of this writing, bois still expects this user to be named aur.

1. Create an aur user.

   useradd --home-dir /var/lib/aur --create-home aur
   

2. Allow aur to call pacman as with root permissions to install packages.

   aur ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/pacman
   

Configuration

Packages can be added by adding a package.paru section to either a group.yml or the host.yml. For example:

# Packages that should be installed when this group is enabled.
packages:
  paru:
    - pueue-git

All pacman packages that’re defined in the host.yml and of all enabled group.yml files will then be installed for the given host.