Arch Linux Builder Ansible Scripts

I always wanted to be able to customize and add to Arch Linux embedded installs.

The goal here is to have a set of playbooks that generates an SD card that's supposed to boot and already be usable for a particular application (ex: the alarm setup for my guitar, or MiSTerArch).

Dependencies

• Ansible
• qemu-user-static in order to chroot from x86 into an arm/risc-v system.
• arch-chroot in $PATH from package arch-install-scripts.

Arch Linux

pikaur -S ansible qemu-user-static binfmt-qemu-static arch-install-scripts

Debian

sudo apt-get install ansible qemu-user-static arch-install-scripts arch-install-scripts

How to run

Define your inventory (at least for the machine settings), see inventory_template.yml for more details on how or where to put them.

alarm-ansible% sudo ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml *.play*.yml -v

Tags

After the first successful run, you can probably narrow the --tags you're running, some might be desired to be ran standalone. You can also --skip-tags. --list-tags will give you a complete list of how plays are tagged. Some tags of interest:

• chroot_aquire - creates chroot. It won't clobber it if already there, but should be skipped in order to save time if it is.
• chroot_inventory - if you already have a chroot setup, this is required (add as the first task in the arguments) to add the "chroot" host to the ram based inventory so other tasks can operate on it.
• update - various updates: arch packages