Arch Linux

Summary and Info:

Hi folks. I'm looking to have support for a limited set of specifiers for an alpm-hook in the Exec section of an action. Specifically, I'm looking for a way to access metadata about the trigger itself so I can provide this information to a separate command. I'm thinking of something like:

%p => What triggered the hook (e.g. path or package name)
%o => What type of operation was used for the trigger.

a la systemd specifiers.

My specific use case was to log what packages I've installed for dotfile management. This would greatly help with this, as otherwise as far as I can tell this would require diffing all installed packages with some older list of packages.

I think there's other reasonable use cases as well, such as logging package modification/deletion(/addition) time for system auditing or debugging.

(Thank you for the time and effort for working on pacman. I really appreciate the love put into it!)