[pacman-dev] Hooks for pacman

[Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration | Westermann GmbH ]]

Am Samstag, den 24.01.2009, 00:52 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae:
> Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration | Westermann GmbH ] wrote:
> > Hello,
> > what about an approach that keeps all settings of a specific hook inside
> > the hook script itself? This would just work after deployment of a hook
> > script in /etc/pacman.d/hooks.d without any configuration file hassle.
> > The Hooks would be self contained in files that pacman could source
> > before doing anything. And if someone wants to know what a hook do and
> > when it will be used there is only one place to look.
> >
> > Marc
> 
> 
> The one problem I see with that is that the actual script needs to be 
> run.  The post_install scripts etc, just source and run the script in a 
> shell.  This becomes more difficult if we have to keep information what 
> files trigger the hooks to be run and when.
> 
> Allan

The point was that this way you can install new hooks with packages and
they would just work without any configuration file fiddling. It would
be cleaner for a packager in my opinion.

Marc