[cups] Using the new IPP Everywhere PPD generator with cups-browsed

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Thu Feb 12 19:14:58 PST 2015


Hi,

I am testing the new PPD generator for IPP Everywhere printers from

https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4258

by having backported the patches to CUPS 2.0.2. I have no problem to 
create a queue with the lpadmin command with "-m everywhere" only with a 
small quirk:

https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4579

Already for some time cups-browsed (from cups-filters) is capable of 
discovering IPP Everywhere printers and auto-creating queues for them 
(with "CreateIPPPrinterQueues Yes" in /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf) but 
these queues are set up with System V interface scripts due to lack of a 
PPD generator.

Now I want to use the new generator provided by CUPS, but have no idea 
yet how to do this. cups-browsed speaks IPP to CUPS to create queues. 
How should I proceed.

Naturally I will do a fallback to the interface scripts on failure, so 
that cups-browsed keeps working with older CUPS versions.

Thanks in advance for any help.

    Till



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