[oe] cups issue

Frans Meulenbroeks fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com
Mon Oct 4 17:17:05 UTC 2010


No idea who is the maintainer of cups, but I found the following issue:

/etc/init.d/cups refers to ps ax but if you have busybox installed
there are no ax options.
As busybox has configurable columns it does not seem too good to fix
cups to be able to handle both procps ps and busybox ps.
Guess the preferred solution is to add a dependency to procps and get
the real thing.

However when wanting to make that change I bumped into the following:

We have 6 cups recipes:

cups_1.1.23.bb  cups_1.2.12.bb  cups_1.2.7.bb  cups_1.3.8.bb
cups_1.4.3.bb  cups_1.4.4.bb

The last three (!) of them have DP = "-1"
Is there a point in add ing a recipe that has DP = "-1" for a
prolonged time, then create a new version with DP = -1?
(btw: and no version is pinned or so).

Guess this recipe needs some love.

(btw cups 1.4.4 solves a number of security issues; guess the best way
forward is to test 1.4.4, then rm the old insecure stuff).

Frans




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