From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adolf Belka To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Problem with transmission-4.0.6 in CU190 Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:13:49 +0100 Message-ID: <04c86b92-edab-4e73-ba38-607be6fdaf75@ipfire.org> In-Reply-To: <8F735E58-90C5-4124-93DD-F473223B9589@ipfire.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1663453871577438068==" List-Id: --===============1663453871577438068== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Michael, On 02/01/2025 11:46, Michael Tremer wrote: > Hello, >=20 > Happy New Year! >=20 > We can easily revert back to 4.0.5 and even release this fast for Core Upda= te 190 users. >=20 > We simply would count up the release version as usual. That is the only thi= ng that Pakfire looks at, so there downgrade of the version number does not m= atter. >=20 > Are you sending a patch? I wasn't sure how to do it but based on your reply, I just need to do a=20 normal update patch but in this case the PAK_VER gets incremented and=20 the package version number will go to 4.0.5, so that looks easy enough=20 for me to do. I will ship out a patch as soon as possible. Regards, Adolf. >=20 > Best, > -Michael >=20 >> On 1 Jan 2025, at 13:32, Adolf Belka wrote: >> >> Hi everyone. >> >> Frohes neues, Beste wensen, Happy new year. >> >> Someone on the forum has flagged up that version 4.0.6 of transmission is = banned by a lot of torrent sites due to a bug in it. >> >> It checks if you are using ipv4 and or ipv6. If you are not using ipv6 the= n the code goes through the whole check again and this was apparently causing= significant load on torrent sites. >> >> This issue was found and fixed with a patch on 2nd Sept 2024 but version 4= .0.7 has not been released. It looks like they don't intend to do that but to= focus on the 4.1.0 release candidate work. >> >> Unfortunately no message was put on the 4.0.6 release notes that it should= not be used if ipv6 was not being used. So I found version 4.0.6 and provide= d an update patch for it on 24th Sept 2024. >> >> The forum user would like to revert to version 4.0.5 >> >> What would be the best option - revert transmission to 4.0.5 or add the tr= ansmission patch that fixes the issue. >> >> The transmission patch fix could only apply to CU191. >> >> Could a reversion of transmission to 4.0.5 be made to work with CU190. How= would that work with the cached versions of the addons in the install. Would= users have to clear their caches or are there alternative ways to install th= e older version once it is in the addons download server. >> >> What feedback do you all have on the best approach from the two above or i= s there another approach that I haven't thought of. >> >> Regards, >> >> Adolf. >> >> --=20 >> Sent from my laptop >> >=20 --=20 Sent from my laptop --===============1663453871577438068==--