Updating plugins after customization

[Nick2253]

I'm currently using the Transmission plugin, to which I've added nginx so I can connect to the Transmission service over SSL. I'd like to keep Transmission up to date, but I don't want to break my setup.

In the spirit of adventure, I took a snapshot of the jail, and went ahead and did the upgrade. After the update was done, nothing worked. Transmission would not start, and spit out a bunch of errors. Instead of taking the time to go over them and try and fix them, I just rolled back the snapshot. Honestly, I didn't think the update would work, but I figured it would break the custom stuff, not the Transmission stuff.

Should this update have worked? Is there a better way to go about doing the update? Should I just use a custom jail and update Transmission manually?

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

the plugin update procedure is pretty fragile so things dont always work as they should. transmission should retain most of it's settings in /var/db/transmission, but some are managed by the plugin and may need to be reset in the transmission configuration menu, in the freenas webui.

 

[Jailer]

My last transmission plugin update didn't go so well either so I copied the directory that @Joshua Parker Ruehlig pointed out above and installed it in a standard jail. It's pretty simple to get it working.