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kormpu

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Registered: 2020-08-18

Posts: 30

[SOLVED] Custom pacman hook

Is there a way to have pacman run a custom post-installation hook on package whenever it is updated?

Last edited by kormpu (2020-12-25 15:32:12)

icar

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From: Catalunya

Registered: 2020-07-31

Posts: 535

Re: [SOLVED] Custom pacman hook

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman#Hooks
https://jlk.fjfi.cvut.cz/arch/manpages/man/alpm-hooks.5

$ man 5 alpm-hooks

Last edited by icar (2020-12-25 02:30:57)

SteffNC

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Registered: 2019-05-22

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] Custom pacman hook

I have a hook for starting paccache after upgrading and installing packages like this:

$ cat /etc/pacman.d/hooks/paccache.hook 
[Trigger]
Operation = Upgrade
Operation = Install
Type = Package
Target = *
[Action]
Description = Cleaning pacman cache
When = PostTransaction
Exec = /sbin/paccache -rk3