[pacman-dev] [PATCH 2/2] pacman: don't run hooks when using --dbonly

[Allan McRae]

On 13/6/21 10:28 pm, morganamilo wrote:
> --dbonly is meant to only touch the database and not the actual system.
> However hooks still run which can leave files in place or run commands
> you may not want.
> 
> The hooks being run also means `fakeroot pacman -S --dbpath test/ foo --dbonly`
> fails because alpm tries to chroot for hooks which requires real root.
> ---
>  src/pacman/pacman.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/pacman/pacman.c b/src/pacman/pacman.c
> index 7e810127..f94fd2ea 100644
> --- a/src/pacman/pacman.c
> +++ b/src/pacman/pacman.c
> @@ -633,6 +633,7 @@ static int parsearg_trans(int opt)
>  		case OP_DBONLY:
>  			config->flags |= ALPM_TRANS_FLAG_DBONLY;
>  			config->flags |= ALPM_TRANS_FLAG_NOSCRIPTLET;
> +			config->flags |= ALPM_TRANS_FLAG_NOHOOKS;
>  			break;
>  		case OP_NOPROGRESSBAR:
>  			config->noprogressbar = 1;
> 

OK