On Ma, 03 dec 13, 00:45:03, Leo Antunes wrote: > Hi, > > On 02/12/13 13:27, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Reading through the upstream bug log I have a few suggestions in regards > > to fixing this bug: > > > > 1. Create the user debian-transmission with $HOME /var/lib/transmission > > > > 2. Don't hardcode -g|--config-dir in the start parameters and let the > > daemon use the default $HOME/.config/transmission which will now > > translate to /var/lib/transmission/.config/transmission > > Sounds obvious and elegant... and I'm not sure why I didn't do it this > way to begin with. It might have had something to do with having a > dot-dir in /var/lib, which IMHO seemed a bit "dirty". Admittedly a very > subjective reason.
It was also my first reaction to this :) > I'm a bit worried about migration side-effect, though. Would have to > think this through a bit. But I'm obviously open for more specific > suggestions... especially in the form of patches! ;) I'd be glad to, but I don't have the knowledge for this. I could help draft the NEWS.Debian / README.Debian file though. Besides testing of course ;) > > As a bonus this would also allow getting rid of the > > /etc/default/transmission file ;) > > Yeah, I've also been meaning to do that, particularly because I wanted > to get rid of the whole "ENABLE_DAEMON" thing, since it's a very > sysv-init-specific hack, which isn't even the Right Way™ to do things > anyway. Cool. > > 3. In order to prevent torrents being downloaded to /var by default ship > > a settings.json with > > > > "download-dir": "/home/debian-transmission/", > > > > (or whatever) > > Why not use $HOME/downloads for this? (which is the current setting > assuming your suggestion of setting $HOME) > Under the FHS definition, /var/lib seems OK and this way we can keep > things in a single place, with the exception of /etc. Sure. I was just thinking that users with anything but all-in-one partition may not like this, but on the other hand changing the download folder is easy enough. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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