[cups.general] MIME type matching not working as expected

[Michael Sweet]

On Dec 15, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Helge Blischke wrote:
> ...
> Ah, I see your system is a Mac os X 10.6.x, so you use CUPS 1.4.x. With CUPS 
> 1.4, the mime stuff is no longer stored in /etc/cups, but in 
> /usr/share/cups/mime (I assume the Apple folks did not deviate from this 
> convention). Move your local.types and local.convs (if any) to that 
> directory and try again.


I probably haven't documented this sufficiently, but /usr/share/cups/mime is for common/read-only MIME .types and .convs files. You will typically put any local additions in /etc/cups - cupsd reads the files from both places.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair

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