Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:04:21 +0100 From: Jonathan Weiss <tomonage2@gmx.de> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Ports <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re:FreeBSD Port: foomatic-filters-3.0.2 Message-ID: <BE1FF6E5.1707E%tomonage2@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <200501281314.39973.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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Hi Michael, > On Friday, 28. January 2005 12:57, Jonathan Weiss wrote: >> Hi! >> >> >> I just saw that you commited a foomatic-filters port. >> Maybe you can have a look at ports/76249. This is a more complex port for >> foomatic-filters that also registers itself as a cups-filter if cups is >> present. > > All the exists(foo) checking is rather bad style, I'd like to keep that out of > the port (the package will install all the bits into the right locations in > my port, but not pull in any runtime dependencies - if the user needs a file > conversion filter, he can just add the package). I included it because foomatic-filters does not need enscript, cups, mpage and a2ps to build, one of then will fo the job. This was the best solution I had. > I'll add the cups-filter bit, I assumed foomatic-filters would do that > automatically but apparently it doesn't. I cannot comment on your solution but according to http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html You need to put a symlink in cups/filters in ordner to register foomatic as a cups-filter. > In what scenario is fdescfs needed to work properly? I've been using > foomatic-rip / foomatic-gswrapper on my own systems for a while now without > fdescfs and didn't have problems. I included it because of this thread: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=352379+0+archive/2005/freebsd-s table/20050116.freebsd-stable Greets, Jonathan Weiss
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