[arch-dev-public] Hooks!

[Christian Hesse]

Florian Pritz <bluewind at xinu.at> on Fri, 2016/04/29 10:49:
> On 29.04.2016 10:20, Ike Devolder wrote:
> >> How about a hook that rebuilds kernel initramfs images? Something like:
> >>   
> > It only benefits one package, so seems pointless to move it in hooks. If
> > you have custom kernels installed you must run mkinitcpio anyway for all
> > of them.  
> 
> The current way of running mkinitcpio in the install scriptlet is
> broken. Some package that may be included in the initramfs might get
> updated after the script runs so their files in the initramfs may be the
> old versions. This has happened before and the only way to properly fix
> it is by using a hook to run the command at the very end of the update
> process. This is not pointless.

Yup, that's the point. Every kernel package shout ships its own hook.

This does not require and package rebuild, though.
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