Windows drivers depenency issues

[Michael Sweet]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> Peter wrote:
>>>> No, you need at least CUPS 1.2 installed; the RPM we supply uses an
>>>> epoch of 1 to match the Red Hat RPM versioning.  1:1.2 means "version
>>>> 1.2 or higher with an epoch of 1".
>>>
>>> Oh...of course.  I knew it was something staring me right in the face.
>>>
>>> I tried installing cups 1.3svn.  Configure, make, and make install 
>>> all went off without a hitch.  I still get the dependency error.
>>>
>>> Trying again with 1.2.1.
>>>
>>> --Pete
>>
>>
>> Failed again.  Once again I know the problem is staring me right in 
>> the face, but I just don't know what it is.
> 
> AFAIK, the RPM dependency checking stuff does this by querying the RMP 
> related database
> on installed packages. Compiling CUPS from the sources and using those 
> install scripts
> don't update the dependency database, so you need to install the 
> cups-windows stuff
> with the option --nodpes, I guess.

or just use "rpmbuild -ta filename" with the CUPS source archive to
build RPMs...

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