Printing with java under FreeBSD - CUPS symlinks

[Nicolas Blais]

On Thursday 07 September 2006 01:47, Virgil Champlin wrote:
> This bit me on a couple of hosts with the 1.2.x upgrade which removes
> print/cups-lpd.  So I took a look in
> /usr/ports/print/cups-base/pkg-install.  The post install operation
> "unshades" the /usr/local/bin versions of lp*  by clearing the mode bits
> on the /usr/bin copies (chmod -h 0 ...).  It no longer moves them out of
> the way and replaces them with symlinks.  It also does it only if you
> have CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE defined.  CUPS 1.2.x has been a real pain but
> for other reasons.  -virgil

100% with you on that one... hopefully with minor releases cups can be what it 
used to be...
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