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

[Tobias Hunger]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 2:25 PM Jonathon Fernyhough
<jonathon at manjaro.org> wrote:
>
> On 13/10/2018 13:12, Tobias Hunger via arch-general wrote:
> > I run a immutable and stateless setup. So I can not actually update systems
> > (they are immutable after all). So I end up having my CI generate images
> > for my systems every couple of hours. Those will then replace the images I
> > run eventually, getting me to a new updated system state.
>
> As a slight side-step, might it be possible to generate the images in a
> ramdisk/tmpfs? That should remove disk I/O as a bottleneck.

That is possible.

> Another option, given you know the expected end state, could be to
> bypass pacman and extract the package file content into place directly
> (e.g. with tar), then run whatever hooks you want afterwards. Yes, you'd
> lose package management within the images but that doesn't matter with
> an immutable image. (Though, there may be side-effects I haven't
> considered here.)

The price is loosing package management. I do want to keep that to
drag in dependencies.

Best Regards,
Tobias