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

[Eric Boutilier]

Paul -- Awesome! The more Solaris ports that use metadata
formats the better. Makes sharing go up and duplicated effort
go down. And even better, IMO, that you used a widely-known format.

Also, these appear almost ready-made for the spec-files-extra
repository. So maybe the pkgbuild folks (Laca?) could pick
these up for inclusion there too?

Eric

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Paul Cunningham wrote:
> 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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