Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:32:44 +0100 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printer Installation Message-ID: <200807121132.44064.jmc-freebsd@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080711225954.GA93550@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20080711194558.GA2442@remdogbsd> <20080711225954.GA93550@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Friday 11 July 2008, Roland Smith wrote:
> You should define CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE when building cups. This will
> install cups's lp* programs over the system programs. The easiest
> way to do that is to add the following lines to /etc/make.conf:
>
> .if ${.CURDIR:M*/print/cups*}
> CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=true
> .endif
>
> Then rebuild and re-install the cups-base port.
>
> To prevent the next system rebuild from undoing this, you should also
> add
>
> WITHOUT_LPR=true
>
> to /etc/src.conf.
I think this only applies for ver. 7.
For 6.3 you need to put
NO_LPR=true
in /etc/make.conf.
/etc/src.conf (and its slightly different wording) wasn't introduced
until 7.0.
I also have WITH_CUPS=yes in /etc/make.conf. I understand that some
ports make use of it.
--
Mike Clarke
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