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LPRng IPP support? and hold-and-release system at Cornell?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Tue Feb 15 03:47:18 2011
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:47:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: debathena@mit.edu, release-team@mit.edu
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While reporting the LPRng build failure that's holding up our Natty build
[*], I spent some time browsing the lprng-devel archives and found a
couple interesting things:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=26342070
Cornell is looking into using a web server + LPRng to set up a
hold-and-release system to replace their current in-house Kerberized
printing system ("Net-Print").
(The person who's talking about this is the same person in CIT who
implemented a klpr mode for LPRng for OS X that got upstreamed. This looks
unrelated to the klpr-osx locker's version, but I can't tell for sure.)
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=26581296
There exists a patch for adding IPP server support to LPRng. From later
discussion, it looks like they're planning to do a release of the "recent"
development (since 2008 or later) fairly soon so that they can start
merging this code in; an RC was uploaded two weeks ago.
[*] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27062276 if
you're curious. I think this is the last thing left for the Natty build.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
