Send patches - preferably formatted by git format-patch - to patches at archlinux32 dot org.
summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/alpm-hooks.5.asciidoc8
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
--------