[companion-discuss] Re: spec files for building 'Solaris CUPS Print Suite' ...

[Paul Cunningham]

I have resent this because the first time (yesterday) it was blocked by 
the alias and not released due to the size of the attachment. I have 
reduced the attachment size by removing all the unnecessary bits and 
attached that now. Please read on .......

Paul

Paul Cunningham wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Attached are my first attempts at creating a set of gnome style spec 
> files for building the opensource packages that make up the "Solaris 
> CUPS Print Suite". The packages they build are direct replacements for 
> the packages that are on (or were on) the Companion CD (CCD) - whoops 
> it's a DVD now.
> 
> These packages are:
>   SFWcups       SFWespgs     SFWfltk    SFWgutenprint  SFWpnm2ppa
>   SFWcupsprint  SFWffilters  SFWfppds   SFWhpijs       SFWxpp
> where package SFWcupsprint is a dummy package that pulls all the others 
> together (via dependencies).
> 
> I have briefly tested them on sparc, but I only have one network 
> printer, and as such they all work together okay.
> 
> The attached tarball contains the spec files, patches, include files and 
> a Makefile. I have only built them on Solaris 10 sparc but they should 
> hopefully work okay on x86 and Solaris nv. At the time of creating the 
> spec files they used the latest stable version of the packages (except 
> gutenprint which is rc3).
> 
> The next step is to break down the CUPS package into sub-packages in the 
> way that Norm (Solaris Print Group) has suggested (so that it works 
> along side the Solaris Print System) .....
> 
> Norm wrote:
>  > I was thinking about breaking down the packaging into something along
>  > the lines of
>  >    SFWcups-libs
>  >    SFWcups-spooler
>  >    SFWcups-commands
>  >    SFWcups-filters
> 
> I hope these are useful to someone, let me know. If I have missed any 
> packages that should be in the suite let me know. Also if you find any 
> problem with the resultant packages also let me know.
> 
> Regards
> Paul
> -- 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> Paul Cunningham
> 
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