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authorJouke Witteveen <j.witteveen@gmail.com>2018-07-25 18:53:03 +0200
committerAllan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>2018-07-27 11:04:02 +1000
commit2d8a751943abfe6c32fdc6957d61848d5eb0e4ca (patch)
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downloadpacman-2d8a751943abfe6c32fdc6957d61848d5eb0e4ca.tar.xz
alpm-hooks.5: include more information on hook files
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
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@@ -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
--------