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LINUX-RUN-HOOKS

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 3 May 2025
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NAME

linux-run-hooks - run package installation or removal hooks

 

SYNOPSIS

linux-run-hooks image MAINT-SCRIPT KERNEL-VER IMAGE-PATH
                -- MAINT-PARAMS ...

linux-run-hooks headers MAINT-SCRIPT KERNEL-VER
                -- MAINT-PARAMS ...  

DESCRPTION

linux-run-hooks is intended to be called from the maintainer scripts of Linux kernel image and headers packages. It uses the run-parts command to execute hooks installed in the appropriate subdirectories of /etc/kernel and /usr/share/kernel.

The first argument is the package type; either image or headers.

The MAINT-SCRIPT argument must be the name of the maintainer script: preinst, postinst, prerm, or postrm.

The KERNEL-VER argument must be the kernel version string as shown by uname -r and used in filenames, not the package version.

The IMAGE-PATH argument must be the absolute filename of the kernel image.

The MAINT-PARAMS arguments must be the parameters received by the maintainer script.  

AUTHOR

linux-run-hooks and this manual page were written by Ben Hutchings as part of the Debian linux-base package.


 

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