Printer Installation

[Mike Clarke]

On Friday 11 July 2008, Roland Smith wrote:

> You should define CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE when building cups. This will
> install cups's lp* programs over the system programs. The easiest
> way to do that is to add the following lines to /etc/make.conf:
>
> .if ${.CURDIR:M*/print/cups*}
> CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=true
> .endif
>
> Then rebuild and re-install the cups-base port.
>
> To prevent the next system rebuild from undoing this, you should also
> add
>
> WITHOUT_LPR=true
>
> to /etc/src.conf.

I think this only applies for ver. 7.

For 6.3 you need to put

NO_LPR=true

in /etc/make.conf.

/etc/src.conf (and its slightly different wording) wasn't introduced 
until 7.0.

I also have WITH_CUPS=yes in /etc/make.conf. I understand that some 
ports make use of it.

-- 
Mike Clarke