On 10/20/05, James Rayner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/19/05, Judd Vinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 06:06:17PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: > > > Enter the idea: > > > Let's make up a file, called /etc/pacman.d/install-actions - this file > > > would contain a series of file patterns to match along with commands > > > to call when they are matched. > > > > Hi Aaron, > > > > Interesting, this is a similar idea to one I've been rolling around too. > > Yours is more fine-grained though. I had initially thought about some > > sort of "event hooks" where you can bind actions to package name(s). > > When said package(s) are upgraded, the respective actions (shell > > commands, whatever) could be executed. > > > > Your idea works at the file level instead of the package level though. > > Could be powerful. > > > > > > - J > > > > People would love this, like for things like a kernel update, to > automatically recompile extra modules. It would be a *very* powerful > feature. > > James Rayner
Another case for this feature... I just upgraded mono-tools and gtk-sharp, after each upgrade, it rebuilt the mono-doc index, which takes ages... with this "trigger" functionality, this would have only been done once. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
