Added jinja2 variable aur_helper

roles/arch_update/tasks/aur_rebuild.yaml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   register: aur_packages
 - name:  Rebuild AUR Python packages
   aur:
-    use:  pikaur
+    use:  "{{ aur_helper }}"
     name:  '{{ item }}'
     aur_only:  true
     extra_args:  --rebuild

roles/arch_update/tasks/aur_upgrade.yaml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 - name: AUR upgrade
   aur:
-    use: pikaur
+    use: "{{ aur_helper }}"
     upgrade: true
     aur_only: true
 

roles/arch_update/tasks/main.yaml

@@ -14,3 +14,7 @@
 
 - name: Perform AUR updates and rebuilds
   ansible.builtin.import_tasks: aur_upgrade.yaml
+
+- name:  Report on any .pacnew files that need to be merged
+  ansible.builtin.include_tasks:  pacnew.yaml
+

roles/arch_update/tasks/pacnew.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+- name: Check for pending .pacnew files
+  ansible.builtin.find:
+    paths: /etc
+    patterns: "*.pacnew"
+    recurse: yes
+  register: pacnew_files
+
+- name: Alert if .pacnew files exist
+  ansible.builtin.debug:
+    msg: "Warning: The following .pacnew files require merging: {{ pacnew_files.files | map(attribute='path') | list }}"
+  when: pacnew_files.matched > 0
+

roles/arch_update/tasks/repo_upgrade.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
-- name: Full repository upgrade
-  become: true
+---
+- name: Perform full system upgrade
+  become:  true
   community.general.pacman:
     update_cache: true
     upgrade: true
+    extra_args: "--noconfirm"
+  register: arch_upgrade_result
+  #- name: Debug full Arch upgrade output
+  #  ansible.builtin.debug:
+  #    var: arch_upgrade_result
+  failed_when: 
+    - arch_upgrade_result.failed == true
+    # We ignore the failure if it's just 'nothing to do', 
+  #  # but otherwise, we let it fail so you can step in.
+    - "'Nothing to upgrade' not in arch_upgrade_result.msg"
+