Re: [arch-general] Can I prevent Pacman from running hooks?

On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 18:41:45 +0200 Tobias Hunger via arch-general wrote:

On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 5:15 PM Doug Newgard via arch-general wrote:

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On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 14:12:11 +0200 Tobias Hunger via arch-general wrote:

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It would suffice to run all hooks in the leaves of the tree of systems (just before writing the actual HDD image files) and skip them for all others.

Again, no, it wouldn't. The hooks would not run correctly.

What makes you say so?

I see nothing in the alpm-hooks man page that implies that this would not work.

Best Regards, Tobias

Because, as I said earlier, hooks can and do take into account the specific files being installed. If you install one package that needs a specific hook, running that hook later will have the correct file list and will not run correctly.