--- This is a follow-up to my hook sorting patch. The information added is also available in pacman.conf(5), and in pacman(8), but this looks like a good place to repeat it. doc/alpm-hooks.5.asciidoc | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/alpm-hooks.5.asciidoc b/doc/alpm-hooks.5.asciidoc index 1d19f96e..cf8d2710 100644 --- a/doc/alpm-hooks.5.asciidoc +++ b/doc/alpm-hooks.5.asciidoc @@ -30,9 +30,14 @@ DESCRIPTION libalpm provides the ability to specify hooks to run before or after transactions based on the packages and/or files being modified. Hooks consist of a single '[Action]' section describing the action to be run and one or more -'[Trigger]' section describing which transactions it should be run for. Hook -file names are required to have the suffix ".hook". Hooks are run in -alphabetical order of their file name. +'[Trigger]' section describing which transactions it should be run for. + +Hooks are read from files located in the system hook directory ++{datarootdir}/libalpm/hooks+, and additional custom directories. Additional +directories are specified linkman:pacman.conf[5]. The default +additional directory is +{sysconfdir}/pacman.d/hooks+. Hook file names are +required to have the suffix ".hook". Hooks are run in alphabetical order of +their file name, where the ordering ignores the suffix. TRIGGERS -------- -- 2.17.1