[oe] cups issue
Henning Heinold
heinold at inf.fu-berlin.de
Mon Oct 4 19:04:02 UTC 2010
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 07:17:05PM +0200, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 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
Yes, the old ones should go.
Bye Henning
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