To print graphics (i.e., from Gimp), or for best performance serving Windows clients, raw printing should be enabled. The default for /usr/local/etc/cups/mime.convs and /usr/local/etc/cups/mime.types is to disable raw printing. That's fine, only one line changes to each file are necessary to enable raw printing. However, each recompile or update of print/cups-base overwrites these two files--disabling printing on my network. Fix: Workaround: I maintain backup copies of mime.convs and mime.types. When print/cups-base overwrites these files, I overwrite the overwrites. :) A better solution would be to teach print/cups-base not to modify these files if they already exist. These two files are crucial to a properly working CUPS server. How-To-Repeat: Convigure mime.convs and mime.types for raw printing. Re-install print/cups-base and watch as it overwrites your configuration file--breaking your configuration--100% of the time.
John, it looks like there's some magic for this in the post-install-target, although as you observe it isn't applied to mime*. Volker
State Changed From-To: open->feedback Forwarded PR to maintainer
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 16:37, Volker Stolz wrote: I've applied this magick to mime.types and mime.convs . Look like previous maintainer thought it isn't necessary for theese files, because all users would use defaults. I don't see anything bad in checking theese files before overwriting, so here's the patch: ====[ cups-base.diff start diff -ruN cups-base.orig/Makefile cups-base/Makefile --- cups-base.orig/Makefile Tue Aug 3 13:28:52 2004 +++ cups-base/Makefile Thu Aug 12 14:53:57 2004 @@ -40,13 +40,10 @@ post-install: ${MKDIR} ${CUPS_ETCDIR} -.for f in classes.conf client.conf cupsd.conf printers.conf +.for f in classes.conf client.conf cupsd.conf printers.conf mime.convs mime.types ${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/conf/${f} ${CUPS_ETCDIR}/${f}.N cd ${CUPS_ETCDIR}; if test ! -f ${f}; then ${CP} -p ${f}.N ${f}; fi .endfor # classes.conf client.conf cupsd.conf printers.conf -.for f in mime.convs mime.types - ${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/conf/${f} ${CUPS_ETCDIR}/${f} -.endfor # mime.convs mime.types cd ${CUPS_RCDIR}; ${MV} cups cups.sh.sample ${FIND} ${PREFIX}/man/cat* -type l -name '*.0' -delete ${MKDIR} ${CUPS_SPOOLDIR} ${CUPS_SPOOLDIR}/tmp diff -ruN cups-base.orig/pkg-plist cups-base/pkg-plist --- cups-base.orig/pkg-plist Thu Mar 18 10:13:47 2004 +++ cups-base/pkg-plist Thu Aug 12 14:58:46 2004 @@ -11,8 +11,12 @@ @unexec if cmp -s %D/etc/cups/cupsd.conf.N %D/etc/cups/cupsd.conf; then rm -f %D/etc/cups/cupsd.conf; fi etc/cups/cupsd.conf.N @exec if test ! -f %D/etc/cups/cupsd.conf; then cp -p %D/etc/cups/cupsd.conf.N %D/etc/cups/cupsd.conf; fi -etc/cups/mime.convs -etc/cups/mime.types +@unexec if cmp -s %D/etc/cups/mime.convs.N %D/etc/cups/mime.convs; then rm -f %D/etc/cups/mime.convs; fi +etc/cups/mime.convs.N +@exec if test ! -f %D/etc/cups/mime.convs; then cp -p %D/etc/cups/mime.convs.N %D/etc/cups/mime.convs; fi +@unexec if cmp -s %D/etc/cups/mime.types.N %D/etc/cups/mime.types; then rm -f %D/etc/cups/mime.types; fi +etc/cups/mime.types.N +@exec if test ! -f %D/etc/cups/mime.types; then cp -p %D/etc/cups/mime.types.N %D/etc/cups/mime.types; fi @unexec if cmp -s %D/etc/cups/printers.conf.N %D/etc/cups/printers.conf; then rm -f %D/etc/cups/printers.conf; fi etc/cups/printers.conf.N @exec if test ! -f %D/etc/cups/printers.conf; then cp -p %D/etc/cups/printers.conf.N %D/etc/cups/printers.conf; fi ====[ cups-base.diff end -- regards, Sergey Akifyev <asa@gascom.ru> JSC Gascom <http://www.gascom.ru> PGP key available from: ftp://ftp.gascom.ru/pub/PGP-keys/asa.txt
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 03:06:43PM +0400, Sergey Akifyev wrote: > checking theese files before overwriting, so here's the patch: The patch got munged (additional linebreaks), can you please resubmit it, preferably as an attchment? Volker -- http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/stolz/ *** PGP *** S/MIME L-Attriwutgrammatik
State Changed From-To: feedback->closed Fixed, thanks!