Transmission 2.94

[Mark Holtz]

As of this writing, the Transmission Torrent Client was upgraded from 2.93 to 2.94 about ten days ago. I was wondering what the timeline was in upgrading the plugin to the current version.

To whoever is doing this... thank you in advance!

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

I didn't know about this release so thank for telling me. I can work on updating the plugin when I find free time... which is rare but should get done eventually. Any important reasons to update to this release?

 

[Mark Holtz]

Here you go....

 

[Mark Holtz]

Just following up... any update on this update?

 

[ChaosBlades]

Looks like it still has not yet been updated for BSD.

https://www.freshports.org/net-p2p/transmission/

This might be another program I am going to need to move away from a jail and put in a Linux VM. BSD is really becoming one of those things that either can't do a task or updates are really slow.

 

[pixel8383]

Any news on this?

 

[ChaosBlades]

Any news on this?

 

[appoli]

I’m not fully familiar with the way plugins work - can they be updated via the port tree or does one need to wait until the plugin is updated as well?


Thanks!

 

[ChaosBlades]

The plug-in maintainer will need to update the plug-in at which point you will have an update button in the freenas gui. Or you can manually install transmission in a manually created jail at which point you can simply run the update command once the application has been updated on the website linked a few posts above. Which it has been. But the best option if you want to stay up to date and not wait for months for people to Port applications is to install a Linux vm and install the application right from the developer which is what I did shortly after my fist reply in this thread. In my opinion I wouldn't bother with jails unless the original developer is supporting freebsd as well as all the dependencies. Which is rare. I would stay away from any freebsd ports of any kind if you want to stay up to date.

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[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

still haven't had time to get to this, and I doubt I will be able to anytime in the near future. Got a baby on the way so that has taken all my free time, trying to finish up a bunch a home projects. Maybe I'll have free time when he gets here? I'm hoping at least.

As ChaosBlades said, if you want 2.94, options would be...

• freebsd pkg - rely on pkg maintainer to update
  
• freebsd ports - need to be able to edit port when new updates come out, usually this just means updating the version number and checksum, sometimes more editing is needed. don't rely on anyone.
• linux vm - rely on linux package maintainer, don't run code natively (possibly would have higher overhead, don't know how much it would effect performance)
• freenas plugin - rely on me... could be a while

 

[SavageAUS]

Which port do we use to install transmission in an iocage jail? Not a pkg. guide?

If you look on freshports and search transmission multiple options show up.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

Which port do we use to install transmission in an iocage jail? Not a pkg. guide?

If you look on freshports and search transmission multiple options show up.

If memory serves me correct, it is transmission-daemon, and that will pull in everything you need.

 

[danb35]

Which port do we use to install transmission in an iocage jail?

https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...lidarr-jackett-ombi-transmission-organizr.58/

 

[SavageAUS]

https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...lidarr-jackett-ombi-transmission-organizr.58/

That’s using the pkg not the port.
I think I’ll stick to pkg anyway as I’ve tried to install transmission and radarr via ports and both wouldn’t install but I could get plex to install without issue. I’m just unsure on the update procedure for ports vs pkg.


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[danb35]

That’s using the pkg not the port.

Yes, and there's no reason to use the port.

I’m just unsure on the update procedure for ports vs pkg.

As I understand it, updating ports takes another utility like portmaster.

 

[SavageAUS]

Yes, and there's no reason to use the port.

As I understand it, updating ports takes another utility like portmaster.

I thought ports were more up to date than the pkg?


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[danb35]

I thought ports were more up to date than the pkg?

(1) Not necessarily (at least by much), and (2) does it really matter? The Transmission packages are at 2.94, so they're current in any event. If you have to update all your software to the latest version as soon as it's released, you need to be building straight from the source without using either ports or packages. If a delay of a few days is acceptable, the package will usually get updated pretty quickly as well.

Now, if you need to compile something with non-standard options, you'll need to use ports. Some software doesn't get built as packages, so that would be another obvious case. And some people just have a thing for wanting to build everything from source themselves. Any of those would be cases that would call for using ports. But most of the time, if the package is available, the simplest and best answer is to use it.

Edit: I'm probably getting a little snippy here, which I don't really mean to, but some folks here just seem obsessive about updating software, and I don't understand it. "OMG the Plex package is two days out of date!", for example. Yes, it's a best practice to keep your software up-to-date, but a delay of a few days (or even weeks) isn't going to hurt anything in most cases.