Global preinstall/postinstall hooks

[jdx]

Discussed in #3844

^{Originally posted by knu December 26, 2024}
It seems the current experimental hooks feature is limited to per-project configuration, but there’s also a need for global preinstall/postinstall hooks. For instance, when installing a new Rust version, I’d like to automatically place a default Cargo configuration file (config.toml) in its .cargo/ directory to make sure additional compiler flags are used. When installing a new version of Go or Ruby as an upgrade to the current system-wide default version, I’d like to install some must-have utilities using go install/gem install. When installing a new version of PostgreSQL, you could dump the databases of the current version in preinstall and then restore them in postinstall.

These hooks would streamline routine setup tasks and ensure consistency across all versions of tools used in day-to-day development.

[botwhytho]

First day using mise, have had a great experience so far!

This is a hook issue with the global config, maybe it should be it's own issue. I just installed docker compose (https://github.com/docker/compose). Seeing some issues:

• mise ls shows it is installed
• mise where shows the folder
• mise which returns mise ERROR docker-compose is not a mise bin. Perhaps you need to install it first.
• The binary name is NOT docker-compose, but inhering the name from the aqua spec, hence the issues above.

Finally, and more relevant to this ticket, the file needs to be renamed/copied somewhere. Per the instructions on the repo:

Rename the relevant binary for your OS to docker-compose and copy it to $HOME/.docker/cli-plugins
Or copy it into one of these folders to install it system-wide:
/usr/local/lib/docker/cli-plugins OR /usr/local/libexec/docker/cli-plugins
/usr/lib/docker/cli-plugins OR /usr/libexec/docker/cli-plugins

I've gotten this to work with a symlink by adding the below to an enter hook on my project:

[hooks]
enter = "[ -f ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose ] && rm ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose; ln -s $(ls -1 $(mise where docker-compose)/*)  ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose"

I tried to get this at the global level in a cd or enter hook but nothing happened there. Are these hooks not supported at the global level on purpose or is this a missing feature?