nixpkgs/nixos
Michael Weiss ea23f8bb07 cups service: Automatically detect Gutenprint in drivers
Additional CUPS drivers can be added via "services.printing.drivers" but
Gutenprint was an exception. It was possible to add a Gutenprint
derivation to that list and it would work at first but unlike the other
drivers Gutenprint requires a script to be run after each update or any
attempt to print something would simply fail and an error would show up
in the jobs queue (http://localhost:631/jobs/):
"The PPD version (5.2.11) is not compatible with Gutenprint 5.2.13.
Please run
`/nix/store/7762kpyhfkcgmr3q81v1bbyy0bjhym80-gutenprint-5.2.13/sbin/cups-genppdupdate'
as administrator."
This is due to state in "/var/lib/cups/ppd" and one would need to run
"/nix/store/.../bin/cups-genppdupdate -p /var/lib/cups/ppd" manually.
The alternative was to enable the following option:
"services.printing.gutenprint" but this had two disadvantages:
1) It is an exception that one could be unaware of or that could
potentially cause some confusion.
2) One couldn't use a customized Gutenprint derivation in
"services.printing.drivers" but would instead have to overwrite
"pkgs.gutenprint".

This new approach simply detects a Gutenprint derivation in
"services.printing.gutenprint" by checking if the meta set of a
derivation contains "isGutenprint = true". Therefore no special
exception for Gutenprint would be required and it could easily be
applied to other drivers if they would require such a script to be run.
2017-08-29 05:25:12 +04:00
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doc/manual Merge pull request #28189 from Nadrieril/ffsync-non-root 2017-08-24 20:47:52 +02:00
lib amazon-image: support VPC/VHD as an output format for the builder 2017-08-10 22:57:26 +00:00
maintainers amazon-image: fix typo in last commit 2017-08-11 02:12:39 +00:00
modules cups service: Automatically detect Gutenprint in drivers 2017-08-29 05:25:12 +04:00
tests nixos/tests/installer: Add stdenvNoCC to extraDependencies 2017-08-24 02:07:56 +03:00
COPYING
default.nix Remove nixFallback 2017-03-06 15:54:50 +01:00
README
release-combined.nix nixos/tests: Make the UEFI boot test release-critical 2017-08-19 08:46:48 +02:00
release-small.nix nixos/release-small.nix: cleanup to use default versions 2017-01-27 15:33:54 +01:00
release.nix elk: 5.4.2 -> 5.5.2 2017-08-23 01:58:12 +02:00

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