- name: "Install BitTorrent packages: transmission-daemon, transmission-cli" package: name: - transmission-daemon - transmission-cli state: present - name: Create download dir {{ transmission_download_dir }}, owned by {{ transmission_user }}:{{ transmission_group }} file: state: directory path: "{{ transmission_download_dir }}" # /library/transmission owner: "{{ transmission_user }}" # debian-transmission group: "{{ transmission_group }}" # debian-transmission # mode: '0755' - name: Stop 'transmission-daemon' systemd service, before modifying its settings systemd: name: transmission-daemon state: stopped ignore_errors: yes - name: Back up prior /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json (original file from apt, or new symlink contents) to /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json.old* copy: src: /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json dest: /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json.old mode: preserve owner: "{{ transmission_user }}" # debian-transmission group: "{{ transmission_group }}" # debian-transmission backup: yes ignore_errors: yes - name: "Back up IIAB's templated version to /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json.iiab" template: src: settings.json.j2 dest: /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json.iiab owner: "{{ transmission_user }}" # debian-transmission group: "{{ transmission_group }}" # debian-transmission mode: '0600' - name: Install /var/lib/transmission-daemon/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json from template template: src: settings.json.j2 dest: /var/lib/transmission-daemon/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json owner: "{{ transmission_user }}" # debian-transmission group: "{{ transmission_group }}" # debian-transmission mode: '0600' - name: "Reverse Transmission's fragile OOTB symlink -- instead we establish /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json -> /var/lib/transmission-daemon/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json -- REASON: /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json was intermittently being IGNORED, as Transmission sometimes breaks its own symlink from /var/lib/transmission-daemon/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json (by turning it into a file instead)" file: path: /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json src: /var/lib/transmission-daemon/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json state: link force: yes # RECORD Transmission AS INSTALLED - name: "Set 'transmission_installed: True'" set_fact: transmission_installed: True - name: "Add 'transmission_installed: True' to {{ iiab_state_file }}" lineinfile: path: "{{ iiab_state_file }}" # /etc/iiab/iiab_state.yml regexp: '^transmission_installed' line: 'transmission_installed: True'