Added debconf to allow user to set user, group and config dir. Only the group is high prio and thus asked for by default.

distribution/debian.sh

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ fromdos ./debian/*
 echo Version: "$dependent_build_number" Branch: "$dependent_build_branch"
 
 rm -r ./sonarr_bin/Sonarr.Update
+chmod -R 664 ./sonarr_bin/*
 
 echo Updating changelog
 sed -i "s/{version}/$dependent_build_number/g" debian/changelog

distribution/debian/config

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/sh -e
+
+. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
+
+db_beginblock
+db_input medium sonarr/owning_user || true
+db_input high sonarr/owning_group || true
+db_input low sonarr/config_directory || true
+db_endblock
+db_go
+
+exit 0

distribution/debian/control

@@ -9,14 +9,14 @@ Build-Depends:  debhelper (>= 9),
                 dh-systemd (>= 1.5),
                 mono-devel (>= 4.6),
                 libmono-cil-dev (>= 4.6),
-                cli-common-dev (>= 0.9)
+                cli-common-dev (>= 0.5.7)
 
 Package: sonarr
 Architecture: all
 Provides: nzbdrone
 Conflicts: nzbdrone
 Replaces: nzbdrone
-Depends: libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.7), libmediainfo0v5 (>= 0.7.52), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${cli:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: adduser, libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.7), libmediainfo0v5 (>= 0.7.52), mono-runtime (>= 5.4), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${cli:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Recommends: sqlite3 (>= 3.7), mediainfo (>= 0.7.52), ${shlibs:Recommends}, ${cli:Recommends}, ${misc:Recommends}
 Suggests: ${shlibs:Suggests}, ${cli:Suggests}, ${misc:Suggests}
 Description: Internet PVR

distribution/debian/postinst

@@ -1,25 +1,37 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 set -e
 
-USER="sonarr"
+# Source debconf library.
+. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
 
-# Add User
+SYSTEMD_UNIT=/lib/systemd/system/sonarr.service
+db_get sonarr/owning_user
+USER="$RET"
+db_get sonarr/owning_group
+GROUP="$RET"
+db_get sonarr/config_directory
+CONFDIR="$RET"
+
+# Add User and Group
+if ! getent group "$GROUP" >/dev/null; then
+  groupadd "$GROUP"
+fi
 if ! getent passwd "$USER" >/dev/null; then
-  adduser --quiet --system --shell /bin/bash --home /var/opt/sonarr --group "$USER"
+  adduser --system --no-create-home --ingroup "$GROUP" "$USER"
-
-  if ! getent group "$USER" >/dev/null; then
-    groupadd "$USER"
-    usermod -a -G "$USER" "$USER"
-  fi
 fi
 
-# Create home directory
+# Create data directory
-if [ ! -d /var/opt/sonarr ]; then
+if [ ! -d "$CONFDIR" ]; then
-  mkdir -p /var/opt/sonarr
+  mkdir -p "$CONFDIR"
-  chown -R $USER: /var/opt/sonarr
+  chown -R $USER:$GROUP "$CONFDIR"
 fi
 
 # Set permissions on /opt/sonarr
-chown -R $USER: /opt/sonarr
+chown -R $USER:$GROUP /opt/sonarr
+
+# Update sonarr.service file
+sed -i "s:User=sonarr:User=$USER:g; s:Group=sonarr:Group=$GROUP:g; s:-data=/var/opt/sonarr:-data=$CONFDIR:g" $SYSTEMD_UNIT
 
 #DEBHELPER#
+
+exit 0

distribution/debian/sonarr.service

@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@ After=network.target
 [Service]
 User=sonarr
 Group=sonarr
+UMask=002
 
 Type=simple
-ExecStart=/usr/bin/mono --debug /opt/sonarr/bin/Sonarr.exe -nobrowser
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/mono --debug /opt/sonarr/bin/Sonarr.exe -nobrowser -data=/var/opt/sonarr
 TimeoutStopSec=20
 KillMode=process
 Restart=on-failure

distribution/debian/templates

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+Template: sonarr/owning_user
+Type: string
+Default: sonarr
+Description: Sonarr user:
+    Specify the user that Sonarr must run as. The user will be created if it does not already exist.
+
+Template: sonarr/owning_group
+Type: string
+Default: sonarr
+Description: Sonarr group:
+    Specify the group that Sonarr must run as. The group will be created if it does not already exist.
+    If the user doesn't already exist then this group will be specified as the user's primary group.
+    Any media files created by Sonarr will be writeable by this group.
+
+Template: sonarr/config_directory
+Type: string
+Default: /var/lib/sonarr
+Description: Config directory:
+    Specify the directory where Sonarr stores the internal database and metadata. Media content will be stored elsewhere.