Ghee Teo wrote:
> Norm Jacobs wrote:
>> Ghee Teo wrote:
>>> Norm Jacobs wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> 3. Should we use the CUPS or the LP print service
>>>>>> on Solaris?
>>>>>> (sounds like CUPS is going to be the preferred
>>>>>> print service).
>>>>>>
>>>>> We have heard, although not investigated, that CUPS on Solaris
>>>>> fixes the printing Issues that we are having ... I am sure that it
>>>>> would handle more file type conversion (especially with
>>>>> GhostScript) than you could do manually with standard LP
>>>>>
>>>> As I am no longer with Sun, I can't say definitively, but the
>>>> intention has been to move Solaris Nevada and OpenSolaris to CUPS.
>>> It is a BIG miss for Norm not to be working inside Sun. while I
>>> can't say whether
>>> the intention changes or not from Sun's business perspective. It is
>>> nevertheless we
>>> recognize that CUPS is crucial/significant in the Open Source world,
>>> going against
>>> it is to create more works for ourselves in the longer term.
>>>
>>>> I integrated CUPS in build 87, along with the bits necessary to
>>>> switch between CUPS and LP. LP is the default right now. CUPS was
>>>> to be the default in the future, after a few things were addressed.
>>>>
>>> There are a couple of piece of the CUPS for OpenSolaris was
>>> supposed to come
>>> in very soon, namely, a Print Manager for CUPS and auto-detection
>>> for USB printers
>>> through HAL integrated with CUPS. The former is coming in 107, but
>>> the latter is
>>> now straw with Norm is able working on it. May be I can take over
>>> some other internal
>>> processes like ARC, OSR, what do you think Norm?
>> I filed an OSR a couple of months ago for the hal-cups-utils bits.
> The OSR has been approved as I just checked.
>> I also wrote a one pager for a SelfReview ARC case (there really
>> aren't any public interfaces, so it's not strictly necessary), but I
>> don't know what happened to that.
> I can take over the ARC works here if you still have a copy,
> otherwise, I guess I can work on one.
> Though I would appreciate the code changes you made that makes it
> works though :)
>
The diffs to make hal-cups-utils-0.6.19 work on Solaris are pretty
small, but hal-cups-utils could really stand some TLC instead of these
changes.
-Norm
% diff hal_lpadmin /usr/lib/hal/hal_lpadmin
2a3
> sys.path.append('/usr/share/system-config-printer')
283c284
< uris=["hal://%s" % self.uid]
---
> uris=[] # "hal://%s" % self.uid]
286c287,288
< if (self.properties.get("linux.subsystem","") == "usb" and
---
> if ((self.properties.get("linux.subsystem","") ==
"usb" or
> self.properties.get("info.solaris.driver","") ==
"usbprn") and
Don't forget to package /usr/lib/hal/hal_lpadmin,
/usr/lib/cups/backend/hal, and
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-hal_lpadmin.fdi.
Alternatively, I could submit a package to the contrib repo.
