On Thursday 28 October 2004 14:05, Mike Pinkerton wrote: >OFFLIST > >Gene: > >FYI, on one of my headless Fedora Core 2 servers, the yum cron job >updated the following packages last night: > > cups 1:1.1.20-11.6.i386 > cups-devel 1:1.1.20-11.6.i386 > cups-libs 1:1.1.20-11.6.i386 > >I'm sure that you can find the packages in most of the FC2 updates >repos. You might see if they solve some of your cups problems. > >Two caveats: > >1. I'm not running KDE (this is a headless server). So I don't > know whether cups is fixed. That version doesn't cut it. I'm fam with cups/gimp-print/gutenprint and have been building that stuffs from srcs for years now. But the fact that I used checkinstall to do a phantom rpm install seems to be driving the rest of the yum/up2date/synaptics stuff plumb out of its skull. The result is that I can print from kde now, but I cannot get any updating util to function. Its a bit discouraging to say the least. >2. I think that you run a real risk of something breaking when you >install Seth's development snapshots. I know that he encouraged > folks to download and try it, but I read that as "folks with a > spare, non-production, test box who don't mind running code that > the author touts as not being feature complete or even debugged". > That description doesn't fit me at the moment. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.28% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
