On 05.05.2015 11:16, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 01.05.2015 02:42, Markus Koschany wrote: [...] >> The correct way to modify your settings is >> to edit /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json anyway. You can change >> all desired configuration options there. > > Unfortunately this does not work. It requires this file to be writable > by the user transmission-daemon is running as, or else the daemon can't > save the file. In particular, new version brings new settings which we'll > never know about if the daemon can't save this file. > > Making this file writable also requires that whole /etc is writable, > which makes it impossible to keep root filesystem mounted read-only, > which is quite common practice especially on systems which faces > network 24x7.
First of all /etc/transmission/settings.json is a symlink to /var/lib/transmission-daemon/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json. The /etc symlink is only for the user's convenience because system-wide configuration should be possible in /etc but of course you can always edit settings.json directly. If you change the file permissions to read-only and diverge from the default settings, you are still responsible that services work as expected. This is not a packaging issue but the core duty of every administrator. > There was a standard supported way to stop all these problems completely, > by moving whole home directory including the settings file to alternative > place, just by giving another value to the daemon (--config-dir option). > Now it doesn't work anymore, breaking existing setup and making it > unsupported. > >> In my opinion >> this is not a bug but just the way it is intended by upstream. > > Upstream provides --config-dir option for a reason. Debian package > had it configurable for ages, and systemd integration already uses > this option but with a fixed value. The only tiny step left is to > connect the two pieces together, this is what I'm talking about. > The old version in wheezy didn't even create a valid home directory but the new one is now set to /var/lib/transmission-daemon. There you can change all your configuration options. If you really want to use the --config-dir option and override the settings you have to create a custom systemd service file and save it to /etc/systemd/system/transmission-daemon.service. Just append the --config-dir option to the ExecStart line, restart the service and it is done. I am not the maintainer of transmission, but in my opinion there is nothing wrong with the packaging of transmission-daemon. If you make custom changes, you are also responsible for all further configuration. There is no automatic way to detect all corner cases and it is trivial to create a custom systemd service file and to adjust it to your needs. Regards, Markus
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