[cups] how to disable automatic ppd updating

[Michael Pardee]

Thanks for all the suggestions.   Changing the NickName field worked
perfectly, double thanks to Brian for the easy way to test it.

Thanks,
Michael Pardee
Open Sense Solutions LLC
http://open-sense.com
888-323-1742

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 6:03 PM, Brian Potkin <claremont102 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue 03 Oct 2017 at 16:11:12 -0300, Till Kamppeter wrote:
>
> > You can use a simple trick:
> >
> > Edit the PPD file prefixing the NickName.
> >
> > For example replace
> >
> > *NickName:      "Generic PCL 5c Printer - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.11"
> >
> > by
> >
> > *NickName:      "CUSTOMISED: Generic PCL 5c Printer - CUPS+Gutenprint
> > v5.2.11"
> >
> > Then the PPD file updater is not able any more to identify to which
> Debian
> > package this PPD belongs and so the PPD gets never updated.
> >
> > What the prefix is does not matter, any prefix works.
> >
> > I use the trick in cups-browsed, as there I download the PPD from a
> remote
> > server to make the options available on the client, but I edit the PPD on
> > the client to avoid duplicate filtering (on the client and on the
> server).
> > These copies should naturally not get updated by the package updating
> > processes, therefore I prefix the NickNames with "Remote printer: ".
> >
> > Please report back whether it works for you.
>
> One way of testing is:
>
>   touch /usr/share/cups/ppd-udaters/*
>   apt-get --reinstall install cups
>
> --
> Brian.
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