From 2d8a751943abfe6c32fdc6957d61848d5eb0e4ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jouke Witteveen Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 18:53:03 +0200 Subject: alpm-hooks.5: include more information on hook files Signed-off-by: Allan McRae --- doc/alpm-hooks.5.asciidoc | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/alpm-hooks.5.asciidoc') 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 -------- -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2