Re: airprint patches for cups

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 02:23:58PM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote:
> At 12:19 Uhr +0200 20.7.2018, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >Major linux distributions (debian and Ubuntu at last) have patched their
> >cups for basic airprint support. These patches have been rejected by cups
> >because cups (i.e. apple) because cups is not fully airprint-complient,
> >but linux users seems to be happy with it.
> >
> >Attached is a patch that adds this basic airprint support to our cups.
> >Would it be OK to commit ?
> 
> First, thanks for working on this. I have been dabbling with airprint
> support for years, and never got anywhere.
> 
> Second, the patches apply (after converting the patch file from msdos to
> unix line endings), and the patched cups-base builds and installs. My
> iphone then proceeds to not find a printer.
> 
> I used
> 
> PKG_OPTIONS.cups =      tcpwrappers dnssd -dbus -kerberos -libusb -slp
> 
> to build. Are there any more requirements for build or configuration?

Hum, for unrelated reasons I use cups with avahi here (btw I think the
option should be cups-base now).
But the patch should work with dnssd too, AFAIK. Maybe you can see what is
advertized with the dns-sd client ?

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