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FS#59318 - [pacman] provide cross-reference to HookDir in alpm-hooks man page

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by AMM (amish) - Friday, 13 July 2018, 02:25 GMT
Last edited by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Friday, 27 July 2018, 18:21 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Documentation
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 5.1.0
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
If we see "man alpm-hooks" then there is this mention:

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OVERRIDING HOOKS
Hooks may be overridden by placing a file with the same name in a higher priority hook directory. Hooks may be disabled by overriding them with a symlink to /dev/null.
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But there is no mention of where that hook directory is? And how to set priority?

For a new reader (or person like me who has bad memory) it would become a clueless thing and will have to look here and there.


Now if we see "man pacman.conf"

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HookDir = /path/to/hook/dir
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For more information on the alpm hooks, see alpm-hooks(5).
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So we need to add similar cross-reference to "man alpm-hooks"

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OVERRIDING HOOKS
...
For more information see HookDir in pacman.conf(5).
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Thank you.
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Closed by  Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Friday, 27 July 2018, 18:21 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  pacman 5.1.1

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