[cups] Configuration of Client-Side Avahi browsing

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On Nov 30 11:14 Alexander Hofmann wrote (excerpt):
> Am 27.11.2015 um 12:57 schrieb Johannes Meixner:
>> ...
>> without a locally running cupsd because GTK can ask
>> directly Avahi for the DNS-SD "printer" information.
>
> Yes, it can - Recently I found this bug report:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1379359

Therein the actual upstream issue report is mentioned:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=738431


> So, I will have to continue to search for a different solution,
> or use my own GTK compilation without Avahi support,

If you need Avahi only for DNS-SD "printer" information stuff
and if you use only a few fixed remote CUPS print queues,
then you could stop/disable the Avahi daemon and set up
local "proxy" print queues that point to the remote CUPS print
queues as described at "Manual Configuration of Print Queues"
in http://cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.7/sharing.html

For some details about how such local "proxy" queues work
you may have a look at https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4738

Basically such a local "proxy" queue behaves like the
traditional CUPS Browsing reference to a remote CUPS queue
(and also like the traditional CUPS Browsing reference
such a local "proxy" queue is not shareable).


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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