[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#549673: cups: constantly modify configuration files in /etc
Luca Capello
luca at pca.it
Mon Oct 5 13:02:30 UTC 2009
Package: cups
Version: 1.4.1-4
Severity: minor
Hi there!
I manage my /etc with etckeeper, with the following options:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
VCS="git"
# Uncomment to avoid etckeeper committing existing changes
# to /etc automatically once per day.
AVOID_DAILY_AUTOCOMMITS=1
# Uncomment to avoid etckeeper committing existing changes to
# /etc before installation. It will cancel the installation,
# so you can commit the changes by hand.
AVOID_COMMIT_BEFORE_INSTALL=1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Since when I started to use etckeeper, I noticed that every time cupsd
starts it rewrites the configuration file:
=====
gismo:/etc# git diff
diff --git a/cups/printers.conf b/cups/printers.conf
index 3548437..ed91cf8 100644
--- a/cups/printers.conf
+++ b/cups/printers.conf
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.4.1
-# Written by cupsd on 2009-09-16 09:52
+# Written by cupsd on 2009-10-05 13:50
[...]
diff --git a/cups/printers.conf.O b/cups/printers.conf.O
index 9d86c62..3548437 100644
--- a/cups/printers.conf.O
+++ b/cups/printers.conf.O
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.4.0
-# Written by cupsd on 2009-09-09 10:10
+# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.4.1
+# Written by cupsd on 2009-09-16 09:52
[...]
gismo:/etc#
=====
This also happens once per day, usually around 0600 if my laptop is on.
The solution I adopted until now was a `git reset --hard HEAD` before
continuing with anything related to /etc (installing/removing packages
or editing files there), but I am now really tired of this situation.
Cups is the only program I am aware of with such behavior and I still
think this is a bug in cups: I do not see the reason why *without my
approval* it modifies configuration files. If this is really needed,
why it does not keep a copy in /var/lib? This seems to me the best
place, according to the FHS:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARLIBVARIABLESTATEINFORMATION
Feel free to downgrade this bug to wishlist or tag it as wontfix, but
please do not close it. I was surprised to not find any occurrence of
it in the Debian BTS, but I should admit I have searched on still opened
bug only.
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages cups depends on:
ii adduser 3.111 add and remove users and groups
ii bc 1.06.94-3.1 The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal
ii cups-client 1.4.1-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii cups-common 1.4.1-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.27 Debian configuration management sy
ii ghostscript 8.70~dfsg-2+b1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.25-1 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.25-1 Avahi common library
ii libc6 2.9-27 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcups2 1.4.1-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupscgi1 1.4.1-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsdriver1 1.4.1-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsimage2 1.4.1-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsmime1 1.4.1-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsppdc1 1.4.1-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-5 GCC support library
ii libgnutls26 2.8.4-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii libijs-0.35 0.35-7 IJS raster image transport protoco
ii libkrb5-3 1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.17-2 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libpam0g 1.1.0-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpaper1 1.1.23+nmu1 library for handling paper charact
ii libpoppler4 0.10.6-1 PDF rendering library
ii libslp1 1.2.1-7.6 OpenSLP libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13 userspace USB programming library
ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii perl-modules 5.10.1-5 Core Perl modules
ii procps 1:3.2.8-1.2 /proc file system utilities
ii ssl-cert 1.0.23 simple debconf wrapper for OpenSSL
ii ttf-freefont 20090104-4 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True
ii xpdf-utils [poppler-ut 3.02-1.4+lenny1 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages cups recommends:
pn cups-driver-gutenprint <none> (no description available)
pn foomatic-filters <none> (no description available)
pn ghostscript-cups <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages cups suggests:
ii cups-bsd 1.4.1-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
pn cups-pdf <none> (no description available)
pn cups-ppdc <none> (no description available)
pn foomatic-db <none> (no description available)
pn foomatic-db-engine <none> (no description available)
pn hplip <none> (no description available)
pn smbclient <none> (no description available)
ii udev 146-3 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
pn xpdf-korean | xpdf-japanese | <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
cupsys/raw-print: true
cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, scsi, serial, socket, usb, snmp, dnssd
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