Opened 15 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

#989 closed Enhancement (fixed)

Auto-update blocklist

Reported by: jpiper Owned by: charles
Priority: Normal Milestone: 1.40
Component: Transmission Version: 1.21
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

It would be nice if we could set the blocklist to auto update (every day/week?)

Change History (7)

comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by charles

  • Milestone changed from None Set to 1.30
  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

We're not going to do this in the GUI, but I've added functionality to make it possible by using a third-party tool or two:

In 1.30 Transmission will automatically notice on startup new/changed files in the `blocklists' configuration folder, and reparse them.

So if you use cron to pull down a new copy of the blocklist and uncompress it in the `blocklists' folder, Transmission will update automatically the next time it's restarted.

comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by charles

  • Resolution fixed deleted
  • Status changed from closed to reopened

comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by charles

  • Owner set to charles
  • Status changed from reopened to new

comment:4 Changed 15 years ago by charles

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

comment:5 Changed 15 years ago by charles

  • Milestone changed from 1.30 to 1.40
  • Resolution fixed deleted
  • Status changed from closed to reopened

titer has given the green light to this feature wrt load & bandwidth overhead on the web site. Since this is so frequently requested, and relatively simple to do, I think we should aim to get this into 1.40.

I don't like the idea of making it configurable though, because that opens us up to abuse w/people updating too frequently. Maybe fortnightly would be a good interval.

If we add periodic updates, we can remove the "update blocklist" button too.

comment:6 Changed 15 years ago by livings124

[6682] has the Mac build implementation

comment:7 Changed 15 years ago by charles

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from reopened to closed

r6687 has the gtk+ build implementation.

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