[Solved] How to get pacman hook user input [y/n] interactivity for fwupd hook?

[dusky nymph]

Hi, I have a pacman hook for fwupd to check and update UEFI & SSD firmware whenever I run yay/paru/pacman -Syu (upgrade operations). For some reason, putting fwupd commands in a pacman hook loses its [y/n] prompt so it automatically updates firmware without confirmation. User input confirmation would be nice, is there a way to make pacman hooks use its original command's user inputs?

/etc/pacman.d/hooks/fwupd-update.hook

[Trigger]
Operation = Upgrade
Type = Package
Target = *

[Action]
Description = Updating system firmware via fwupd
When = PostTransaction
Exec = /bin/sh -c 'fwupdmgr refresh --force && sudo fwupdmgr update'

[distant lance]

Stdout and stderr are connected via pipes from the chroot process and don't have direct access to the running terminal.

We explicitly close stdin, (after connecting it, to guarantee that fd 0 exists and it is empty), in order to forbid user input.

This is determinedly intended to not work; don't do it.

-- Eli Schwartz (2020-05-22 16:12:19)

[distant lance]

So no user input in pacman hooks

A viable alternative would be shell alias or function

[dusky nymph]

Ah I see, I just find it convenient to have a single yay (alias of paru) command to handle all updates. I considered aliasing yay = paru; fwupdmgr refresh --force && sudo fwupdmgr update but it prevents me from using yay with others parameters I think

[distant lance]

Functions or scripts can be used instead.

What are the other requirements?

[dusky nymph]

I'm using fish shell (interactive), do you know how to make it that typing yay by itself will do paru; fwupdmgr refresh --force && sudo fwupdmgr update but using yay with parameters etc yay -S, yay <package> will be an alias to paru?

[distant lance]

Try this script

#!/usr/bin/bash
USAGE="\
Update the system

Usage: yay [--nofw] [pacman arguments]

Flags:
  --nofw    Don't update firmware
"

if ! command -v paru &> /dev/null; then
    echo "Error: paru is required but not installed."
    exit 1
fi

if ! command -v sudo &> /dev/null; then
    echo "Error: sudo is required but not installed."
    exit 1
fi

if ! command -v fwupdmgr &> /dev/null; then
    echo "Error: fwupd is required but not installed."
    exit 1
fi

args=()

# parse
while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
    case "$1" in
    --nofw)
        nofw=1
        shift
        ;;
    --help)
        echo -e "$USAGE"
        exit
        ;;
    *)
        args+=($1)
        shift
        ;;
    esac
done

if [[ $nofw != "1" ]] ; then
    sudo fwupdmgr refresh --force && sudo fwupdmgr update
else
    echo "Skiping firmware updates"
fi

# sudo -v
paru "${args[@]}"

Save as ~/.local/bin/yay and then

chmod +x ~/.local/bin/yay

You can pass pacman/paru flags, and use the --nofw flag to skip firmware updates.

In my humble opinion, it is the more straightforward thing to do than fiddling with fish line-editor

[dusky nymph]

Thanks, will use ur script if I can't get the fish function working!

[dusky nymph]

yay got it working:

function yay --wraps=paru --description 'alias yay paru'  
  if count $argv > /dev/null
        paru $argv
    else
        paru
        fwupdmgr refresh --force
        sudo fwupdmgr update
    end

end

funcsave yay

[Solved] How to get pacman hook user input [y/n] interactivity for fwupd hook?