Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: gutenprint: Printer Drivers Package https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199108 ------- Additional Comments From panemade@xxxxxxxxx 2006-08-08 01:02 EST ------- (In reply to comment #26) > /usr/share/gutenprint/doc should be /usr/share/doc/gutenprint, I believe. > I followed the way Makefile is installing those doc files here. Should i move /usr/share/gutenprint/doc to /usr/share/doc/gutenprint ? > ========= > from %configure using your spec: > Build genppd statically: no > ***WARNING: Use of --disable-static-genppd or --disable-static > when building CUPS is very dangerous. The build may > fail when building the PPD files, or may *SILENTLY* > build incorrect PPD files or cause other problems. > Please review the README and release notes carefully! > > ./configure --help > --enable-static-genppd build a statically-linked cups-genppd and > rastertogutenprint. WARNING: Please read the README > and NEWS (release notes) CAREFULLY before disabling > this! [(automatic)] > > From NEWS, section about static: > 7) Due to the implementation of CUPS, it is necessary on some > systems to link the programs associated with the CUPS driver (in > particular, cups-genppd and rastertogutenprint) statically > against the Gutenprint library. Please see bugs 865253 and > 865265 for full details. > > This fix works correctly unless --disable-static (to disable > building static libraries) is passed on the command line. > Normally, only people packaging up Gutenprint for distribution > use this option. If you wish to use this option, please read > item (6) in Exceptions and Workarounds *carefully* for a full > description of the problem along with suggested methods of > procedure. > > As far as I can tell, "Exceptions and Workarounds" ends at item 5. ;) In > another place, which I think may be a fix for the above, is to build it, install > it, and rebuild it, which mock may not be accoustomed to. I'm not sure where the > built .a files should be if it's compiled without --disable-static (typically in > -devel). Will check that > > ========= > From the README: > NOTES TO PACKAGERS: > > * We recommend that your installation package run > cups-genppdupdate.5.0 and restart CUPS as part of the > installation process. > > CUPS is being restarted, cups-genppdupdate.5.0 isn't being run in %post I modififed SPEC file to run cups-genppdupdate.5.0 in %post > ========= > You may want to break out the languages into other sub-packages. > /usr/share/cups/model/gutenprint/5.0 is 124 megs, but is just 7.3 megs times 17 > languages. The main gutenprint package size could be greatly reduced. Will do that and then post updated package link. But how can i handle this? I mean how can i make separate packages for all languages? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review