[cups.general] Upgrading RHEL5.2 with CUPS 1.2.4 to CUPS 1.3.9

[Henri S]

Is it important that you are running RHEL5?

If you do not mind Debian or Ubuntu, then you can just apt-get what ever
componets you require. In addition, I belive that by default the latest
releases of both Debain and Ubuntu install CUPS 1.3.9 by default if you
select print server during the setup process.

Just another possibility.. But this will depend on wheather having a
different OS will be a possibility.

Also, if you are upgrading your CUPS install or moving to a new server,
then you may want to look at PrinterSetup. The latest version of
PrintersSetup will be able to pull all the queues from one server into
PSFs (printer setup files) and then you can simply copy this PrinterSetup
configuration to another server and run printersetup to setup all the
queues again. In the long term this will mean that you can very easily
move queus between servers or setup failover servers. However, if you only
have one or two CUPS queues, just configuring the new queues by hand or
copying the CUPS configurerarons accross may be a quicker option.

Hope this helps.


cups at easysw.com writes:
>
>I have an installed RHEL5 server running CUPS 1.2.4 (but not configured
>ath all, ie, we are not running CUPS yet), and I'd like to upgrade to
>CUPSa v1.3.9.  Should I proceed with this method?:
>1) Remove all CUPS-related RPMs from the server (for v1.2.4), including
>al l inter-dependencies?
>2) Compile and install into the default directory structure the new 1.3.9
>2version of CUPS? (ie, /var, /usr, etc.)
>
>or to be able to build and make an easier-to-move CUPS installation (for
>mroving to other company servers), could I do step 1 above, and then
>placen the new installation completely into the /opt directory (like
>/opt/ncups)?
>
>I'm not sure whether I should simply re-build this server WITHOUT CUPS in
>Ithe kickstart script, and then add the v1.3.9, as I don't know what to
>doh with all of the inter-dependencies.
>
>Or should I go with the much older v1.2.4 already built-in to RHEL5?