[arch-general] pacman and hooks

[Magnus Therning]

Doug Newgard writes:

> On Tue, 02 Feb 2016 23:51:16 +0100
> Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
>
>> Doug Newgard writes:
>> 
>> > On Tue, 02 Feb 2016 23:25:58 +0100
>> > Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
>> >  
>> >> Stefan Tatschner writes:
>> >>   
>> >> > On 01.02.2016 23:05, Magnus Therning wrote:    
>> >> >> Is there more information about this feature available somewhere?    
>> >> >
>> >> > $ man 5 alpm-hooks    
>> >> 
>> >> Excellent. I also found this https://github.com/andrewgregory/pachooks.
>> >> 
>> >> I'm guessing that link contains one erroneos bit of information though,
>> >> the location of the hooks. Since `pacman` includes the dir
>> >> `/usr/share/libalpm/hooks/` I'm guessing that's where hooks should go,
>> >> right? (It could be a nice touch to put a README file there ;)
>> >> 
>> >> /M
>> >>   
>> >
>> > That's where packages should put hooks, not users/admins.  
>> 
>> Ah, so admins should put site-specific hooks in the locations mentioned
>> in at the link above?
>> 
>> /M
>> 
>
> No, even those are for packages. Users/admins should use /etc/pacman.d/hooks.
> Not sure about scripts.

Ah, I just now found a mention of the default hook dir, it's in
pacman.conf(5)! I must admit I was surprised to *not* find it mentioned
in alpm-hooks(5).

As far as I understand it

|--------------------------+---------------------------------------------|
| /usr/share/libalpm/hooks | system dir, used by packages                |
|--------------------------+---------------------------------------------|
| /etc/pacman.d/hooks      | suggested dir for use by local stuff, needs |
|                          | to be configured in /etc/pacman.conf        |
|--------------------------+---------------------------------------------|

Is that correct?

/M

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