[cups.development] Suggestion: cups-windows -package to be repackaged

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue Aug 28 08:24:17 PDT 2012


Jari,

At this point we are no longer developing or maintaining the CUPS Windows driver.


On Aug 28, 2012, at 6:47 AM, Jari Turkia <jatu at hqcodeshop.fi> wrote:

> I was installing Linux into a new PC the other day. During my Samba-setup it occurred to me that the cups-windows -package has architecture i386 in it. See: http://www.cups.org/software.php cups-windows-6.0-1.i386.rpm
> 
> IMHO the architecture of RPM should be noarch, there are no Linux executable binaries in the package, after all. Also there is a requirement for cups-config command during build. So, I'm suggesting a patch for cups-windows .spec-file to fix these two issues.
> 
> The ready-made RPM and source-RPM -packages are available for download at: http://opensource.hqcodeshop.com/CUPS/
> 
> Regards,
> Jari Turkia
> 
> 
> The patch follows:
> --- SPECS/cups-windows.spec.orig        2006-04-20 02:54:59.000000000 +0300
> +++ SPECS/cups-windows.spec     2012-08-28 13:30:03.188672020 +0300
> @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
> Summary: Common UNIX Printing System
> Name: cups-windows
> Version: 6.0
> -Release: 1
> +Release: 2
> Epoch: 1
> License: GPL
> Group: System Environment/Daemons
> @@ -33,6 +33,8 @@
> Url: http://www.cups.org/windows/
> Packager: Anonymous <anonymous at foo.com>
> Vendor: Easy Software Products
> +BuildArch:     noarch
> +BuildRequires: cups-devel
> 
> # Use buildroot so as not to disturb the version already installed
> BuildRoot: /tmp/%{name}-root
> @@ -61,6 +63,11 @@
> %dir /usr/share/cups/drivers
> /usr/share/cups/drivers/*
> 
> +%changelog
> +* Tue Aug 28 2012 Jari Turkia <jatu at hqcodeshop.fi>
> +- Release 6.0-2
> +- Changed architecture into noarch. This package does not contain Linux
> +  executable binaries.
> 
> #
> # End of "$Id: cups-windows.spec.in 5 2006-04-19 23:47:43Z mike $".
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