transmission (35) Versions 6.0.10 Follow7

Provides resources to install, configure, and manage Transmission

Policyfile

Berkshelf

Knife

cookbook 'transmission', '~> 6.0.10', :supermarket

cookbook 'transmission', '~> 6.0.10'

knife supermarket install transmission

knife supermarket download transmission

README

Dependencies

Changelog

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transmission Cookbook

Provides custom resources to install, configure, and manage the
Transmission BitTorrent Client.

This cookbook no longer provides recipe or node attribute APIs. See
[migration.md](migration.md) for the breaking migration guide.

Requirements

Platforms

AlmaLinux 8+
Amazon Linux 2023+
CentOS Stream 9+
Debian 12+
Fedora
openSUSE Leap 16+
Oracle Linux 8+
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8+
Rocky Linux 8+
Ubuntu 22.04+

See [LIMITATIONS.md](LIMITATIONS.md) for package availability and source build notes.

Chef

Chef Infra Client 15.3+

Resources

[transmission_install](documentation/transmission_install.md)
[transmission_config](documentation/transmission_config.md)
[transmission_service](documentation/transmission_service.md)
[transmission_torrent_file](documentation/transmission_torrent_file.md)

Usage

transmission_install 'default'

transmission_config 'default' do
  rpc_password 'changeme'
end

transmission_service 'default' do
  action %i(create enable start)
end

Maintainers

This cookbook is maintained by the Sous Chefs. The Sous Chefs are a community of Chef cookbook
maintainers working together to maintain important cookbooks. If you would like to know more,
visit sous-chefs.org or join the Chef Community Slack in
#sous-chefs.

Contributors

This project exists thanks to all the people who
contribute.

Backers

Thank you to all our backers.

Dependent cookbooks

This cookbook has no specified dependencies.

Contingent cookbooks

There are no cookbooks that are contingent upon this one.

transmission Cookbook CHANGELOG

This file is used to list changes made in each version of the transmission cookbook.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog,
and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

6.0.10 (2025-10-16)

Bug Fixes

ci: Update workflows to use release pipeline (#64) (9ea3f5e)

6.0.2 - 2023-04-04

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

6.0.1 - 2022-02-10

resolved cookstyle error: tasks/maintainers.rb:37:7 convention: Style/FileWrite
resolved cookstyle error: metadata.rb:23:1 refactor: Chef/Modernize/DependsOnOpensslCookbook
resolved cookstyle error:
- Chef/Deprecations/Delivery: Do not include a .delivery directory for the delivery command in your cookbooks. Chef Delivery (Workflow) went EOL Dec 31st 2021 and the delivery command was removed from Chef Workstation Feb 2022. (https://docs.chef.io/workstation/cookstyle/chef_deprecations_delivery)
resolved cookstyle error:
- Chef/Correctness/OpenSSLPasswordHelpers: The secure_password helper from the openssl cookbooks Opscode::OpenSSL::Password class should not be used to generate passwords. (https://docs.chef.io/workstation/cookstyle/chef_correctness_opensslpasswordhelpers) ::Chef::Node.include Opscode::OpenSSL::Password
Update provisioner settings
Update tested platforms

6.0.0 - 2021-08-20

Set unified_mode on resources for Chef 17 support
Require Chef 15.3+ for unified_mode support

5.0.3 - 2021-08-14

Standardising files in line with updated recommendations

5.0.2 - 2021-06-01

Standardise files with files in sous-chefs/repo-management

5.0.1 - 2021-03-25

resolved cookstyle error: providers/torrent_file.rb:120:21 convention: Style/RedundantBegin
resolved cookstyle error: providers/torrent_file.rb:121:1 convention: Layout/EmptyLinesAroundMethodBody
resolved cookstyle error: providers/torrent_file.rb:121:1 convention: Layout/TrailingWhitespace

5.0.0 (2020-11-13)

Sous Chefs Adoption
Update Changelog to Sous Chefs
Update to use Sous Chefs GH workflow
Update README to sous-chefs
Update metadata.rb to Sous Chefs
Update test-kitchen to Sous Chefs
Update to version 3.00 for source installation
Added InSpec test profile
resolved cookstyle error: providers/torrent_file.rb:76:60 convention: Style/RedundantParentheses
resolved cookstyle error: attributes/default.rb:20:14 warning: Lint/SendWithMixinArgument
resolved cookstyle error: metadata.rb:12:1 refactor: ChefStyle/OverlyComplexSupportsDependsMetadata
resolved cookstyle error: metadata.rb:13:1 refactor: ChefModernize/UnnecessaryDependsChef14
Cookstyle fixes
Yamllint fixes
MDL fixes
Fix CentOS/Fedora installation
Source installation issues
Fix SUSE source installation
Remove Amazon Linux 1 testing
Remove EL 6 testing
Remove init.d scripts
Remove Oracle Linux testing

4.0.1 (2017-08-18)

Add attributes for controling seed ratio

4.0.0 (2017-01-18)

Use multipackage to speed up package installs
Expand platform testing and fix 16.04 package tests
Make sure we have ssl libs on debian systems
Remove the chef 11 compatibility check in chef_gem
Switch back to stable ChefDK builds for testing
Require Chef 12.14 to get ruby 2.2.2+ which is needed for the gems that are installed by this cookbook

3.0.0 (2016-09-08)

Add matchers
Require Chef 12.1+

2.2.1 (2016-09-01)

Add chef_version
Testing updates
Pull transmission from Github and use 2.92

2.2.0 (2016-08-11)

Fix up chef_gem compile time warnings.
Add support for transmission whitelist settings.
Add use_inline_resources
Add conditional to support older versions of chef.
Update testing
Specif version 4.x of activesupport to fix installs on Ruby 2.1 Chef omnibus

v2.1.1 (2016-01-08)

Add supports metadata for all supported platforms

v2.1.0 (2016-01-08)

Fixed installation via source on RHEL systems by adding openssl / tar packages to the source recipe
Switched to platform_family to better support derivitive operating systems
Updated to the latest version of Transmission for source installs
Switched from .bz2 to .xz format archives for source installs as .bz2 archives are no longer being published. Xz tools will now be installed in the source recipe
Added source test suite in Test Kitchen
Removed support for RHEL releases before 7 as the version of libevent shipped in these distros is too old to compile tranmission

v2.0.10 (2015-12-14)

Set the minimum supported Chef release to 11
Removed the monkeypatch to Ruby 1.8.6 support
Resolved all rubocop warnings
Added testing with Travis CI
Added chefignore file
Swaped Digital Ocean Test Kitchen config for Docker
Added standard Chef .rubocop.yml
Updated contributing and testing docs
Added Gemfile with development deps
Added maintainers file
Added a Rakefile for simplified testing

v2.0.9 (2015-02-18)

reverting OpenSSL module namespace change

v2.0.8 (2015-02-18)

reverting chef_gem compile_time work

v2.0.7 (2015-02-18)

Updating to use the latest openssl

v2.0.6 (2015-02-18)

Fixing chef_gem for Chef below 12.1.0

v2.0.4 (2014-09-18)

[#11] prevent circular symlink for settings.json on Ubuntu 14.04
Add Berksfile and test-kitchen config

v2.0.2 (2014-03-19)

[COOK-4424] Updates Transmission url in README'

v2.0.0

Requires Ruby 1.9 or higher!

Use Hash#key to silence Hash#index deprecation warnings
Delete torrent local data when not seeding
Prevent torrent status of checking from prematurely ending blocking downloads
Use BEncode.load_file to load torrent file when hashing to avoid UTF-8 encoding issues
Add watch dir options

v1.0.4

[COOK-2981]: transmission cookbook has foodcritic errors

v1.0.2

[COOK-729]: transmission_torrent_file doesn't work for more than a single torrent
[COOK-732]: link to file in swarm not created if torrent already completely downloaded

Collaborator Number Metric

6.0.10 passed this metric

Contributing File Metric

6.0.10 failed this metric

Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a CONTRIBUTING.md file

Cookstyle Metric

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No Binaries Metric

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Testing File Metric

6.0.10 failed this metric

Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a TESTING.md file

Version Tag Metric

6.0.10 failed this metric

Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must include a tag that matches this cookbook version number

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transmission Cookbook CHANGELOG

6.0.10 (2025-10-16)

Bug Fixes

6.0.2 - 2023-04-04

6.0.1 - 2022-02-10

6.0.0 - 2021-08-20

5.0.3 - 2021-08-14

5.0.2 - 2021-06-01

5.0.1 - 2021-03-25

5.0.0 (2020-11-13)

4.0.1 (2017-08-18)

4.0.0 (2017-01-18)

3.0.0 (2016-09-08)

2.2.1 (2016-09-01)

2.2.0 (2016-08-11)

v2.1.1 (2016-01-08)

v2.1.0 (2016-01-08)

v2.0.10 (2015-12-14)

v2.0.9 (2015-02-18)

v2.0.8 (2015-02-18)

v2.0.7 (2015-02-18)

v2.0.6 (2015-02-18)

v2.0.4 (2014-09-18)

v2.0.2 (2014-03-19)

v2.0.0

v1.0.4

v1.0.2

Collaborator Number Metric 6.0.10 passed this metric

Contributing File Metric 6.0.10 failed this metric Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a CONTRIBUTING.md file

Cookstyle Metric 6.0.10 passed this metric

No Binaries Metric 6.0.10 passed this metric

Testing File Metric 6.0.10 failed this metric Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a TESTING.md file

Version Tag Metric 6.0.10 failed this metric Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must include a tag that matches this cookbook version number

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transmission (35) Versions 6.0.10 Follow7

Collaborator Number Metric

6.0.10 passed this metric

Contributing File Metric

6.0.10 failed this metric

Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a CONTRIBUTING.md file

Cookstyle Metric

6.0.10 passed this metric

No Binaries Metric

6.0.10 passed this metric

Testing File Metric

6.0.10 failed this metric

Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must contain a TESTING.md file

Version Tag Metric

6.0.10 failed this metric

Failure: To pass this metric, your cookbook metadata must include a source url, the source url must be in the form of https://github.com/user/repo, and your repo must include a tag that matches this cookbook version number