Ansible playbooks for building silver searcher and the latest versions of vim + tmux from source and for installing my dotfiles

dotfiles.yml

---
- hosts: webservers
  connection: ssh
  user: $user
  sudo: yes
  tasks:
    - name: Install dotfile essentials
      apt: pkg=$item state=latest install_recommends=no update_cache=yes cache_valid_time=3600
      with_items:
        - cmake
        - python-apt
        - exuberant-ctags
        - git-flow
        - htop
    - name: Set correct permisssions
      file: path=$home recurse=yes owner=$user group=$group state=directory

- hosts: webservers
  connection: ssh
  user: $user
  tasks:
    - name: Clone dotfiles
      git: repo=https://[email protected]/rob_b/dotfiles.git dest=${home}/.dotfiles update=no

    - name: Install dotfiles
      command: make all chdir=${home}/.dotfiles creates=${home}/.config/python/pythonrc.py

sourcebuilds.yml

- hosts: webservers
  connection: ssh
  sudo: yes
  user: $user
  tasks:
    - file: path=${home}/packages state=directory owner=${user} group=${group} mode=755
      tags:
        - ag

    - name: Install silver_searcher prerequisites
      apt: pkg=$item state=latest install_recommends=no
      with_items:
        - automake
        - pkg-config
        - libpcre3-dev
        - zlib1g-dev
        - liblzma-dev
      tags:
        - ag

    - name: Download silver_searcher
      get_url: url=https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/archive/0.15.tar.gz dest=${home}/packages/the_silver_searcher-0.15.tar.gz
      tags:
        - ag

    - name: Extract silver searcher
      command: chdir=${home}/packages /bin/tar xvf the_silver_searcher-0.15.tar.gz creates=${home}/packages/the_silver_searcher-0.15
      tags:
        - ag

    - name: Run build script for silver searcher
      command: chdir=${home}/packages/the_silver_searcher-0.15 ./build.sh creates=${home}/packages/the_silver_searcher-0.15/Makefile
      tags:
        - ag

- hosts: webservers
  connection: ssh
  user: $user
  sudo: yes
  tasks:
    - name: Make silver searcher
      command: chdir=${home}/packages/the_silver_searcher-0.15 make install creates=/usr/local/bin/ag
      tags:
        - ag

    # only needed until newer vim appears in ubuntu repos
    - name: Add vim ppa
      apt_repository: repo=ppa:nmi/vim-snapshots

    - name: Install latest vim
      apt: pkg=$item state=latest install_recommends=no
      with_items:
        - vim-gnome

    # only needed until newer tmux appears in ubuntu repos
    - name: Download tmux 1.8-3
      get_url: url=https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/tmux_1.8-3_amd64.deb dest=/var/cache/apt/archives/tmux_1.8-3_amd64.deb

    - name: Install tmux 1.8-3
      command: dpkg -i tmux_1.8-3_amd64.deb chdir=/var/cache/apt/archives