Re: printing with firefox3?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:09:46 +0200
Yorick Hardy <yorickhardy%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> Greg kindly committed the work around for CUPS.
> 
> However, it does not appear to be the correct fix.
> 
> I think the correct patch we want for CUPS is now in CUPS svn:
>   http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3079
> 
> I attach two patches for firefox after reading
>   
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=84710+0+archive/2004/freebsd-gnome/20041212.freebsd-gnome
> 
> which seems to do the trick. I do not know if they are acceptable,
> but it seems SHA1_Update is not exposed in any installed header files.
> 
> Can I convince anyone to try it together with the '&' patch for CUPS?
> 
> If anyone does so, please try with the above CUPS patch but without
> pkgsrc/print/cups/patches/patch-ae which already works around the
> problem.
> 
I confess that I don't understand the current status of firefox3 and
cups.  I need to rebuild firefox3 now -- 3.0.6 is out, with some
security patches -- but I don't know what extra patches I should or
shouldn't apply to it, cups, etc.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb