Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 12:39:20 -0400 From: Alan E <alane@geeksrus.net> To: "P. Jourdan" <pippo@videotron.ca> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: cups-1.1.15.1 Message-ID: <20020907163920.GA22358@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020907115703.00ab2010@mail.host45.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020907115703.00ab2010@mail.host45.com>
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On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 12:13:30PM -0400, P. Jourdan wrote: >Gentlemen, >I have been having a running battle with cups that sometimes seems to work, >others, no. >cups-1.1.15l_1 (the latest port) is installed on FreeBSD 4.5 RELEASE - with >ghostscript-gnu-7.05_3 (EPS Ghostscript prints out in the test print) cups-pstoraster installs epsgs privately. >The current installation, as the previous one, was done with portupgrade. >To make the previous one work, I had to patch as follows: >patch: why? that patch looks mighty odd. it's certainly not necessary on any other system, bsd or otherwise, that i've heard of. i suspect your configuration is all messed up. delete all the cups ports, remove the directories from /usr/local/etc, and then reinstall, without patching anything. reconfigure everything using the web interface on port 631. if that doesn't do it, then (1) cups 1.15.1 is not compatible with 4.5, or (2) you have something else really messed up and don't know it. >What seems to be going on here? >Is this a bug in the port? no. >Am I the only one to have this problem? yes. >How do I re-apply the patch so cups willl print from Win2k again? don't. >Shouldn't this patch be incorporated in the port? no. >Please help.... try the above instructions. if that doesn't work, i'd suggest reinstalling your machine with a newer bsd. something's really wrong there. -- Alan Eldridge Unix/C(++) IT Pro, 20 yrs, seeking new employment. (http://wwweasel.geeksrus.net/~alane/resume.txt) KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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