Prowlarr not updateable

[thijsjek]

I installed as your instruction, but it gave me 2 warnings when trying to update to a newer build trough build-in updater.

• Data dir is in the same folder /usr/local/share/prowlarr
• config dir is in same folder /usr/local/share/prowlarr

Solved by using `sysrc prowlarr_data_dir=/usr/local/prowlarr mkdir /usr/local/prowlarr

cp -R /usr/local/share/prowlarr/data/* /usr/local/prowlarr/

chown -R prowlarr:prowlarr /usr/local/prowlarr`

You can also as pointed out below, mount a dataset and have your data stored on it. Just point /usr/local/prowlarr to /your/mount/point.

[Thefrank]

Thanks for the troubleshooting!

I generally don't like the idea of service users having a home dir, but if that is something that prowlarr requires I will rework the guide and the service file to account for it.

Having the data and/or config for an app in a different location, however, IS a good idea as you can more easily set it up as a dataset with snapshots that is mounted into a jail. Many people don't do this and from what i've seen, most FreeNAS/TrueNAS guides seem to overlook this benefit. I will also add this to my guide.

This also shows I needed to spend some more time testing prowlarr before pushing out a package for it. =>.<= I won't have much free time until later this week to impliment/test changes so a reworked package might not be available until closer to the weekend.

[thijsjek]

Good that you see the benefit of mounting datasets. No need to rush because above is the work around provided.

Edit... I solved first the ~/.conf dir by having a home directory. And then moving the data dir. Sonarr and radarr both do the same, and just have to move the data dir somewhere else and both issues solved. I shall update above

[Thefrank]

I have gone ahead and uploaded an updated package.

Two major changes:

• It now installs to /usr/local/prowlarr. I forgot to change this during the change from mono->dotnet. mono things would go into /usr/local/share/PORTNAME because its arch agnostic. dotnet is arch specific so it should go into /usr/local/PORTNAME

• The data location is now /usr/local/data/prowlarr. /var is a bad place because its only for transient data files and /etc is for system data files. prowlarr falls under neither and I didn't have a good place to put it lol

[Thefrank]

@thijsjek ping. did reworked package work for you?

[thijsjek]

Sorry, got a bit busy. I used a new jail and your new package, and it worked. I had to wait a few days to see if an actual update would work and it did. 10/10.

[Thefrank]

Glad to hear!

[Hecsall]

Hi @Thefrank, sorry to reopen this issue, but I just installed Prowlarr following the latest instructions and this issue still persists.

The situation now is the following: Prowlarr executables are inside /usr/local/prowlarr and Prowlarr data inside /usr/local/prowlarr/data, but because the data folder is inside the executables folder the same error appears and prevents updating.

I solved this issue simply specifying a different "prowlarr_data_dir" BEFORE starting Prowlarr for the first time, but I would suggest keeping the same folder structure as Radarr and Sonarr do, so:

• Executables inside /usr/local/share/prowlarr
• Data inside /usr/local/prowlarr (Again, this is how Radarr and Sonarr structure their folders inside TrueNAS)

Hope this helps! (Awesome job by the way!)

[Thefrank]

I forgot to update the guide with links to the updated package >.< I will have to update the guide AGAIN once prowlarr is added to the official ports system (you can watch the progress here if interested https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=259196)

[Hecsall]

Oh I missed the prowlarrdotnet pkg, I didn't use the package version written in the guide, but I opened your releases pages and got the latest available .txz prowlarr version (https://github.com/Thefrank/freebsd-port-sooners/releases/download/20210916/prowlarr-0.1.1.875.txz).

But that's ok, as soon as the official port comes out I'll probably do a fresh install, thanks!