[cups.general] please help to Upgrade CUPS from 1.3.11 to 1.4.2
Helge Blischke
h.blischke at acm.org
Sun Mar 28 09:45:12 PDT 2010
Michael Sweet wrote:
> On Mar 28, 2010, at 6:41 AM, Helge Blischke wrote:
>> Michael Sweet wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>> However, I highly recommend using the
>>> source code from darwinsource since you can render a system unable to
>>> boot if you build CUPS with the wrong architectures.
>>
>> Could you please try to explain that? I'd understand that one can render
>> the printing system unusable - but unable to boot?
>
>
> You'll boot but wouldn't be able to login from the console - the
> loginwindow application, along with many of the standard application
> frameworks, are linked against libcups. If libcups doesn't have the right
> architectures then those applications and frameworks will fail to load...
>
> Remote login (ssh) would continue to work, so you can repair the
> installation from another system (I speak from experience... :)
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
Thanks a lot!
To know this might be essential in case of emergency!
Helge
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