/usr/bin/lpr and /usr/local/bin/lpr

Heinrich Rebehn rebehn at ant.uni-bremen.de
Thu May 19 01:27:32 PDT 2005


Rob wrote:
> Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> 
>>Sorry if this is a FAQ, but i could not find an
>>answer in handbook, ml-archive or google:
>>
>>I have three printing systems installed on my
>>FreeBSD-5.3 system:
>>- FreeBSD lpr
>>- LPRng
>>- cups-lpr
>>
>>Or is there a way to keep "make world" from
>>installing certain binaries (which, in turn,
>>would have to be "cvs update"-resistent?)
> 
> 
> 'man make.conf' and search for NO_LPR.

Thanks. I missed that one. Contains a wealth of handy options.
> 
> Remove the lp-related stuff from /usr/bin/ and
> put
>    CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes

I could not find this one in the manpage. I assume that the binaries in 
/usr/bin will be overwritten?

>    NO_LPR=yes
> 
> in make.conf, so that the next 'make world' does
> not put them there anymore.
> 
> Rob.
Thanks,
	Heinrich


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