[bug-notifications] [cupsclient 0004533]: cups binaries conflict with system binary names

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Fri Aug 27 21:04:49 CEST 2010


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https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4533 
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Reported By:                phil
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    cupsclient
Issue ID:                   4533
Category:                   packaging
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2010-08-27 19:24 CEST
Last Modified:              2010-08-27 21:04 CEST
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Summary:                    cups binaries conflict with system binary names
Description: 
I have only just noticed that "cupsclient" provides binaries that have a
namespace conflict with system level ones! :( specifically, lp, lpstat,
lpq, lpr, lprm, cancel

I dont recall this ever being brought up on the maintainers list, or
discussed previously. "cups" has always been just a black hole to me. Until
I decided to try using it just now :(
Please give some thought to this problem.
 
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 (0008219) maciej (manager) - 2010-08-27 21:04
 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4533#c8219 
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Part of cups deployment on Solaris is removing the SUNW printing packages. 
It's up to the user to remove the packages beforehand.

The packages are:
SUNWscplp SUNWppm SUNWpsu SUNWpsr SUNWpcu SUNWpcr

After these packages are removed, lp, lpstat, lpq and the like are all
gone from /usr/bin.  There are still conflicting man pages; I removed these
using a configuration management system.  I don't know if there's any good
way of handling that.

Back to the /usr/bin vs /opt/csw/bin topic, I don't see any issue with the
binary names.  There's a blog post that I used as a guideline for deploying
cups:

http://blogs.sun.com/DanX/entry/using_cups_print_server_for

Perhaps we could have a better documentation and a better way of
delivering the documentation.



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