[37496] in SIPB bug reports
Re: cups clients for sun4x_510
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
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From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: cups clients for sun4x_510
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I would be wary of installing it as lpq/lpr, because despite people still
using Solaris-Athena _expected_ to know what they're doing, I think this
isn't quite as true in practice, and from the point of view of anyone
trying to do support -- especially a non-SIPB support group like OLC --
the assumption that your lpr or lpq are so nonstandard is not one that
anyone would be likely to guess.
I would probably be more okay with installing the SysV-named clients (lp,
lpstat, cancel) without modified names since /usr/athena/bin/lp is pretty
close to useless.
I'm not sure about the other clients; if I remember correctly, Debian
renamed enable/disable to cupsenable/cupsdisable, and it might be worth
preserving this since the Debian names are what's used in Debathena
documentation and oral instructions.
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Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have compiled cups-1.4.4 in /mit/sipb/arch/sun4x_510/build/cups-1.4.4
> (and a stupidly simple test seems to work okay, but I will test more), but I
> have not yet installed it.
> Before I do so, I want to ask: does it seem like a bad idea to install the
> clients as just 'lpq', 'lpr', etc. (instead of something like 'cups-lpq')?
> I don't have a sense for how many people 'add -f sipb' on sun4x_510, which
> would cause a change in which lpr they get (and its syntax).
> I suppose that anyone still using solaris-athena is probably expected to know
> what they're doing, so maybe it's not a big deal.
>
> I will take silence as a go-ahead to install as-is, probably tomorrow night.
>
> -Ben
>
