What's best way to manage cups configuration? (Re: [Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#343566: cupsys: /etc/cups/cups.d/ports.conf contains errornous string after upgrade.)

Kenshi Muto kmuto at debian.org
Sat Dec 17 06:14:48 UTC 2005


Hi CUPS maintainers,

At Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:13:27 -0500,
Christopher Martin wrote:

Original bug #343566 is already fixed by me (dash's echo doesn't
understand -e or -n option. ARGH).

In this thread, I'd like to ask you what's best way to manage CUPS
configuration roused by Christopher.

> BTW, was it really necessary to split out these settings from cupsd.conf? 
> This affects 3rd-party printer configuration tools like kprinter, and 
> others, I imagine, since now they spit out errors about strange "include" 
> elements in cupsd.conf, and can't control the Ports, etc. settings as they 
> used to. In short, these changes are a real pain. It would be nice if you 
> could change the debconf system around to keep asking the new questions, 
> but NOT to split anything out of cupsd.conf.

The reason why I splited Ports/Listen and Browsing from cupsd.conf is
to free us from parsing complex big configuration and to make
managing by debconf more easier.
But as Christopher said, this change may break other configuration
tools.

- Should we back splited configuration to one big file?
- If so, how do we control Ports/Listen/Browsing? (leave users to do
  by manually, ask by debconf and change it by postinst (as you know, it
  isn't so easy to make it), or ...)
- Any more?

Thanks,
-- 
Kenshi Muto
kmuto at debian.org



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