[arch-general] Why was /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel dropped from cups?
Guys, After updates to cups yesterday, printing to a laserjet4 stopped working. After searching, I discovered /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel did not exist. Why was it removed from cups PKGBUILD? The size is minimal in the days of gigabyte drives and there are still many parallel and serial printers. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
On 06/08/2012 06:28 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
After updates to cups yesterday, printing to a laserjet4 stopped working. After searching, I discovered /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel did not exist. Why was it removed from cups PKGBUILD? The size is minimal in the days of gigabyte drives and there are still many parallel and serial printers.
I should also note cups-filters-1.0.18-2 is up to date, so I can't explain why parallel is missing? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Am 09.06.2012 01:35, schrieb David C. Rankin:
On 06/08/2012 06:28 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
After updates to cups yesterday, printing to a laserjet4 stopped working. After searching, I discovered /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel did not exist. Why was it removed from cups PKGBUILD? The size is minimal in the days of gigabyte drives and there are still many parallel and serial printers.
I should also note cups-filters-1.0.18-2 is up to date, so I can't explain why parallel is missing?
I dont have this problem: LC_ALL=C pacman -Qo /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel is owned by cups-filters 1.0.18-2 Try reinstalling cups-filters.
On 06/08/2012 07:06 PM, martin kalcher wrote:
I dont have this problem:
LC_ALL=C pacman -Qo /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel is owned by cups-filters 1.0.18-2
Try reinstalling cups-filters.
I did - it worked. The only thing I can figure that happened was that cups-filter was installed _before_ cups was updated and then the cups update removed usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (and serial). That is _exactly_ what happened! 19:46 nirvana:~/arch/pkg/abs> tail -n 300 /var/log/pacman.log | grep cups [2012-06-07 14:27] upgraded libcups (1.5.2-2 -> 1.5.3-4) [2012-06-07 14:27] installed cups-filters (1.0.18-2) [2012-06-07 14:27] upgraded cups (1.5.2-2 -> 1.5.3-4) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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