[pacman-dev] Hooks for pacman

[Allan McRae]

Marc - A. Dahlhaus [ Administration | Westermann GmbH ] wrote:
> 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.
>>>       
>> 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.
>>     
>
> 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.
>   

I understood you point.  My point is that each hook need to provide the 
following information:

1. when to run it (per file or transaction)
2. what files trigger it running
3. a script that can be sourced and run by the shell.

It is _a lot_ easier if 1 and 2 are separate from 3.  If you can propose 
a clean way to have them all together, then we will be happy to consider it.

Allan