[CentOS] Cups updates - overwriting mime.* files
Aleksandar Milivojevic
amilivojevic at pbl.ca
Wed Apr 27 15:33:36 UTC 2005
Nigel Kendrick wrote:
> Every time cups is updated I have to check mime.convs and mime.types to
> ensure that references to handling raw file types are uncommented otherwise
> we notice that one of our printers stops working because the files are
> overwritten by the updates. Should config files not be left untouched?
>
> We do have 'print command = lpr -r -oraw -P %p %s' in smb.conf but this on
> its own didn't make the printer work.
>
> Do I just need to keep checking or is there a better way
They are overwritten by system-config-printer, which is probably called
from postinstall part of cups package. You either configure cups by
hand (and remove system-config-printer and system-config-printer-gui),
or you don't touch any files in /etc/cups and let system-config-printer
take care of them.
Same goes for all other packages from system-config-* category. You
either remove the package and configure things by hand. Or you install
the package and do not touch generated configuration files. It's all or
nothing.
If you don't have system-config-printer packages installed, then you
should report bug against cups RPM package (those two files should be
marked as noreplace).
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Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic at pbl.ca> Pollard Banknote Limited
Systems Administrator 1499 Buffalo Place
Tel: (204) 474-2323 ext 276 Winnipeg, MB R3T 1L7
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