[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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