Question about pkg source

[plainlystated]

I'm new to both arch and salt, so maybe I'm missing something here... When I get to this line [1] to install the nagios package, I get an error saying that the package cannot be found. It looks like the package is in the AUR, but not community or any other official repo, so pacman won't install it. Is there a way to add AUR to my pacman sources? Or some other way to use this?

Thanks,
Patrick

[1] https://github.com/saltstack-formulas/nagios-formula/blob/master/nagios/server/init.sls#L3

[wwentland]

@plainlystated thank you for your comment. Unfortunately I am not very familiar with Arch and simply kept the Arch specific bits of this formula as they were.

If you could elaborate on the steps that need to be taken to configure Arch so that it is able to install these packages we can think about adding documentation for that. However, my understanding was that formulas should not configure repositories needed for their usage, but that doing so is left to the user.

More documentation would, however, not hurt.

[galaux]

Packages from AUR are source packages that first need to be built (install base-devel group, clone sources, and makepkg). I would recommend building package(s) from AUR, get them somewhere on the drive and make salt install these (just a quick look at the doc and it seems salt has built-in support for direct package install using parameter sources).