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authorJoey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2016-03-13 17:28:05 -0400
committerJoey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2016-03-13 17:28:05 -0400
commit66517d59e474e6929ff962c911c7c0d58c258d79 (patch)
treeee34a2e3700b692fbc8ef7a5e522f9f7deedfaed /doc
parented82fdae2bbffb68983d538b0c5028e95299b0a2 (diff)
parent53e4646b79b5b2e3ea7f878ff410121d0e94fd16 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of ssh://etckeeper.branchable.com
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+It turns out that my last patch ([[Patch:_Make_Pacman_5_call_etckeeper_hooks_as_late_as_possible]])
+was not perfect after all.
+
+Calling both the pre-transaction and the post-transaction hook as late as possible seemed to make
+sense at the time, but now that I think about it, I would say that only the post-transaction hook should be
+called after all other hooks; the **pre-transaction** hook should be called as **early** as possible.
+
+That way, the pre-transaction hook can make sure that...
+
+- ...everything in `/etc` gets committed before any other hook gets the chance to introduce more changes
+ (therefore making any changes made by other hooks part of the post-transaction commit) *and*...
+- ...it can abort the transaction and thus all hooks that come after the pre-transaction hook if `/etc`
+ is not clean and the user wants to prevent the package manager from running in that case. This prevents
+ any later hooks from making changes that should not be made in the first place (since the entire transaction
+ is being aborted due to a dirty `/etc`).
+
+My patch which makes Pacman call the pre-transaction hook as early as possible can be found here:
+<https://github.com/Tblue/etckeeper/commit/6ff4f922cd34689e0d61359ebd822af5f82c40a6.patch>
+
+Hopefully, this will be the last patch related to the Pacman hooks for some time... Sorry for the noise.
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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="florian.kaiser@0f461a60da03d93431a5fdc965f53e6265e3f91e"
+ nickname="florian.kaiser"
+ subject="comment 1"
+ date="2016-03-08T13:32:03Z"
+ content="""
+Git does git gc automatically when needed.
+"""]]