Unattended deployment of yay on a system. Useful when generating VMs on the fly.

deploy_yay.sh

#!/bin/bash
version=$(git -c 'versionsort.suffix=-' ls-remote --exit-code --refs --sort='version:refname' --tags https://github.com/Jguer/yay.git '*.*.*' | tail --lines=1 | cut --delimiter='/' --fields=3 | tr -d 'v')

url="https://github.com/Jguer/yay/releases/download/v${version}/yay_${version}_x86_64.tar.gz"

tmp=$(mktemp -d)
if [ -d "$tmp" ]
then
        if [ "$(ls -A $tmp)" ]; then
                echo "Oops. Temporary directory $tmp is not empty"
                exit 1
        fi
else
        echo "Oops. Temporary directory $tmp not found"
        exit 1
fi
pushd "$tmp"

wget $url && \
tar xvaf yay_*.tar.* && \
rm yay_*.tar.* && \
cd yay_* && \
./yay -Y --gendb && \
./yay -Syu --devel --noconfirm && \
./yay -Y --devel --save && \
./yay -S yay --noconfirm

popd

if compgen -G "$tmp/yay_*" > /dev/null ; then
        rm -Rv "$tmp"/yay_*
fi

rmdir "$tmp"

deploy_yay_ansible.yaml

- name: Deploy yay
  ansible.builtin.shell: |
    if ! command -v yay &> /dev/null ;then
      version=$(git -c 'versionsort.suffix=-' ls-remote --exit-code --refs --sort='version:refname' --tags https://github.com/Jguer/yay.git '*.*.*' | tail --lines=1 | cut --delimiter='/' --fields=3 | tr -d 'v')
      
      url="https://github.com/Jguer/yay/releases/download/v${version}/yay_${version}_x86_64.tar.gz"
      
      tmp=$(mktemp -d)
      if [ -d "$tmp" ]
      then
        if [ "$(ls -A $tmp)" ]; then
          echo "Oops. Temporary directory $tmp is not empty"
          exit 1
        fi
      else
        echo "Oops. Temporary directory $tmp not found"
        exit 1
      fi
      pushd "$tmp"
      
      wget $url && \
      tar xvaf yay_*.tar.* && \
      rm yay_*.tar.* && \
      cd yay_* && \
      ./yay -Y --gendb && \
      ./yay -Syu --devel --noconfirm && \
      ./yay -Y --devel --save && \
      ./yay -S yay --noconfirm
      
      popd
      
      if compgen -G "$tmp/yay_*" > /dev/null ; then
        rm -Rv "$tmp"/yay_*
      fi
      
      rmdir "$tmp"
    fi
  args:
    executable: /bin/bash