Q: Passing pacman cmd to a hook/trigger

[zetamin]

Hello,

I’m trying to create a trigger for pre/post install hook for pacman. So I have everything, I think, but I would like to pass the actual pacman command (i.e. which packages are being added/removed/changed) that’s to trigger the hook , to the script that will be run.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.
Sam

[papajoke]

Creating useful Pacman hooks

Imported from the archived forum by tbg: I thought it would be nice to have a central thread for user created Pacman hooks. I am starting to get a bit of selection of them now, and I thought it’s time the pacman hooks got shown a little bit of love on the forum. Pacman hook usage is not widely known, so I thought it could use a little more widespread exposure. Pacman hooks allow you to automate any function you would like executed either before or after a Pacman install/uninstall or update ta…