[Bug 199108] Review Request: gutenprint: Printer Drivers Package

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Summary: Review Request: gutenprint: Printer Drivers Package


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199108





------- Additional Comments From panemade at gmail.com  2006-08-08 01:02 EST -------
(In reply to comment #26)
> /usr/share/gutenprint/doc should be /usr/share/doc/gutenprint, I believe.
> 
    I followed the way Makefile is installing those doc files here. Should i
move /usr/share/gutenprint/doc to /usr/share/doc/gutenprint ?

> =========
> from %configure using your spec:
> Build genppd statically:                no
> ***WARNING: Use of --disable-static-genppd or --disable-static
> when building CUPS is very dangerous.  The build may
> fail when building the PPD files, or may *SILENTLY*
> build incorrect PPD files or cause other problems.
> Please review the README and release notes carefully!
> 
> ./configure --help
>   --enable-static-genppd  build a statically-linked cups-genppd and
>                           rastertogutenprint. WARNING: Please read the README
>                           and NEWS (release notes) CAREFULLY before disabling
>                           this! [(automatic)]
> 
> From NEWS, section about static:
>   7) Due to the implementation of CUPS, it is necessary on some
>      systems to link the programs associated with the CUPS driver (in
>      particular, cups-genppd and rastertogutenprint) statically
>      against the Gutenprint library.  Please see bugs 865253 and
>      865265 for full details.
> 
>      This fix works correctly unless --disable-static (to disable
>      building static libraries) is passed on the command line.
>      Normally, only people packaging up Gutenprint for distribution
>      use this option.  If you wish to use this option, please read
>      item (6) in Exceptions and Workarounds *carefully* for a full
>      description of the problem along with suggested methods of
>      procedure.
> 
> As far as I can tell, "Exceptions and Workarounds" ends at item 5. ;)   In
> another place, which I think may be a fix for the above, is to build it, install
> it, and rebuild it, which mock may not be accoustomed to. I'm not sure where the
> built .a files should be if it's compiled without --disable-static (typically in
> -devel).

     Will check that

> 
> =========
> From the README:
> NOTES TO PACKAGERS: 
> 
> * We recommend that your installation package run
> cups-genppdupdate.5.0 and restart CUPS as part of the
> installation process.
> 
> CUPS is being restarted, cups-genppdupdate.5.0 isn't being run in %post
 
 I modififed SPEC file to run cups-genppdupdate.5.0 in %post

>  =========
> You may want to break out the languages into other sub-packages.
> /usr/share/cups/model/gutenprint/5.0 is 124 megs, but is just 7.3 megs times 17
> languages. The main gutenprint package size could be greatly reduced.

   Will do that and then post updated package link. But how can i handle this? I
mean how can i make separate packages for all languages?

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