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| author | Jouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com> | 2018-07-25 18:53:03 +0200 |
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| committer | Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> | 2018-07-27 03:04:02 +0200 |
| commit | 2d8a751943abfe6c32fdc6957d61848d5eb0e4ca (patch) | |
| tree | 72bf55e7ddb491f10c7a6e7bada523d47d52a924 | |
| parent | 13fb2430e8e2c5f266e43da85d9adbe5284f0080 (diff) | |
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alpm-hooks.5: include more information on hook files
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/alpm-hooks.5.asciidoc | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/alpm-hooks.5.asciidoc b/doc/alpm-hooks.5.asciidoc index 1d19f96e..0f6a1057 100644 --- a/doc/alpm-hooks.5.asciidoc +++ b/doc/alpm-hooks.5.asciidoc @@ -30,9 +30,13 @@ DESCRIPTION libalpm provides the ability to specify hooks to run before or after transactions based on the packages and/or files being modified. Hooks consist of a single '[Action]' section describing the action to be run and one or more -'[Trigger]' section describing which transactions it should be run for. Hook +'[Trigger]' section describing which transactions it should be run for. + +Hooks are read from files located in the system hook directory ++{datarootdir}/libalpm/hooks+, and additional custom directories specified in +linkman:pacman.conf[5] (the default is +{sysconfdir}/pacman.d/hooks+). The file names are required to have the suffix ".hook". Hooks are run in -alphabetical order of their file name. +alphabetical order of their file name, where the ordering ignores the suffix. TRIGGERS -------- |