[cups.general] PPD second look

[Michael R Sweet]

angelb wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> Does the upgrade(RPM package) from 1.2 to 1.3 normally handles the ppd
> directory?
> 
> The cupsd.conf, printcap, and printers.conf files were upgraded
> correctly to 1.3 BUT the ppd directory and its contents were not. In fact, the printer's ppd files don't even exist in the 1.3 ppd
> directory.
> 
> I thought of copying the old 1.2 ppd files into 1.3 but looking at ppd
> file size between 1.2 and 1.3, there's a significant difference. One
> way I was able to regenerate the ppd file for a printer queue in 1.3
> was to actually modify the printer queue from the web interface,
> actualy don't make any changes but to save it, then CUPS would create
> a new ppd file for it. Is there a simple way to do this from the cli?

lpadmin -p name -m filename.ppd

Where "filename.ppd" is the file in the /usr/share/cups/model
directory.

> Without the printer's ppd file, printjobs are truncated or printed in
> stair-step effect.
> 
> I'm currently testing 1.3 and documenting the things I need to do or
> be aware of when upgrading from 1.2 to 1.3.

We don't touch the existing printer queues, just the installed PPDs
in /usr/share/cups/model that come with CUPS.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer