system-dotfiles are organized as follows:
system-dotfiles/
├── pacman-hooks
│ ├── clear_pacaur_cache.hook
│ ├── clear_pacman_cache.hook
│ └── nvim_install_upgrade.hook
└── systemd
├── reflector.service
└── reflector.timer
This directory contains hooks triggered on pacman events
clear_pacaur_cache.hook: clear pacaur cache ~/.cache/pacaur usingpaccachetool after whatever install/upgrade package event of pacmanclear_pacman_cache.hook: clear pacaur cache ~/.cache/pacaur usingpaccachetool after whatever install/upgrade package event of pacmannvim_install_upgrade.hook: I prefer to install the neovim python3 client inside a virtual environment instead of the global pythonsite-packagesdirectory. Thus I'm using this hook to either install or upgrade the neovim python3 client located inside a virtual environment.
Pacman hooks run as root user, thus user environment varibles are not loaded.
In order to use them in the hook sudo -u <user> has to be called before the
shell invocation in the exec field of the hook.
This directory contains systemd units
reflector.service: triggered weekly by thereflector.timer, this unit allows to update the /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist with up to date and fastest mirrors. It also takes care of removingmirrorlist.pacnewif it exists.
- https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/6s9mbp/til_clearing_cache_should_be_done_regularly/
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman#Hooks
- https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/alpm-hooks.5.html
- https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/6t0vq2/pacman_hook_with_environment_variables/
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Reflector