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callmejoe

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Registered: 2019-03-06

Posts: 84

which packages call mkinitcpio?

I know updates to the kernel trigger a new image to be built.  sometimes after a pacman -Syu I am surprised that one of the packages being upgraded ends up calling mkinitcpio.

is it packages related to kernel modules?  is there a way for me determine which packages that I have installed will create a new image on update?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,008

Re: which packages call mkinitcpio?

cat /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/90-mkinitcpio-install.hook

See man 5 alpm-hooks.