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krabat

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Registered: 2014-07-03

Posts: 40

hooks: packages providing them, way these are meant to get installed

Hello.

Documentation which packages are intended to provide pacman hooks and how these packages are meant to get installed doesn't seem to exist yet.

Looking at dkms it can sure be assumed that the hooks will be provided by the same packages providing the binary executed by the hook and other packages will have to depend on the former in order to make use of the hooks.
But that's only a wild guess.

So do any plans or some documentation already exist? As for the latter I'd be willing to help out if needed, btw.

Last edited by krabat (2016-04-05 19:30:54)

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: hooks: packages providing them, way these are meant to get installed

Currently no hooks are really used, although there are user-supplied hooks collected here: https://github.com/andrewgregory/pachooks

On April 24 we will start seeing more hooks coming from the main repos though -- like you I assume they will be supplied by the package providing the binary.

I doubt it will require a lot of work to prepare though.

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