[110] in athena10
Re: Is Athena10 using LPRng, CUPS or both?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy G Abbott)
Sun Mar 9 15:24:58 2008
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 15:24:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
cc: athena10@mit.edu, rhe-release@mit.edu, sipb-cups@mit.edu
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Currently, Debathena is using the stock Debian lprng package (with
configuration provided by debathena-lprng-config). It's problematic
because lprng conflicts with the cups packages (because of conflicts over
/usr/bin/lpr and friends). This is really bad on Ubuntu because Ubuntu is
actively trying to make any printing system other than cups not work, and
the ubuntu-desktop metapackage has a hard dependency on cups.
What I'd like to see is a cups-based printing infrastructure. Ideally, it
would do authentication so that we can completely get rid of lprng,
because I think it's a poor plan to have two different printing systems,
and upstream Ubuntu basically requires that you use CUPS. I don't like
the idea of maintaining our own lprng with renamed binaries to support
authenticated printing.
Some folks at SIPB have a prototype CUPS server that only supports
unauthenticated printing at the moment; I've CCed them (sipb-cups@mit.edu)
on this thread in case they have any thoughts.
I'm planning to package Debathena configuration to use that CUPS server as
the default printing solution once it has received a bit more testing.
-Tim Abbott
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, William Cattey wrote:
> I just saw stuff go by on the sibp-macathena list about renaming the
> debathena-lpr commands to just lpr when they incorporated LPRng.
>
> Software release recently switched to offering LPRng as an add-on with all
> the commands prefixed with "mit-" so they'd stop conflicting with the native
> CUPS-based lpr command set.
>
> What is Athena10 planning to do?
>
> -Bill
>
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