Bug 1007537

Summary: Should behave better when there are pre-existing queues
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Component: cups-filtersAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Tim Waugh 2013-09-12 17:28:48 UTC
Description of problem:
If cups-browsed is being used for Browse or BrowsePoll functionality, and the queue it wants to create is already there, it currently just sets the device URI to point to the right place but leaves any PPD as-is.

This is not the best behaviour: it is not a good assumption that the PPD is right for this queue.

Other options:
1. Use a different name so as not to conflict with any existing queue
2. Remove the existing queue first (or at least set its ppd-name to raw)
3. Fail in some way, such as logging an error

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cups-filters-1.0.36-2.fc19.x86_64

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2013-09-17 16:26:11 UTC
Reading through the code, the current behaviour when creating a local queue for remote queue "foobar" is:
* if there is no local queue called "foobar" use "foobar"
* if there is a local queue called "foobar" use "foobar"
* if that is also taken, give up on that queue

I'm pretty sure this is also how cupsd behaved prior to CUPS 1.6.

Máirín: there was a "foobar" queue when we were debugging this, but I don't think we ever tried it to see if it worked. My guess is that would have.

So the queue we had been trying might not have been touched by cups-browsed after all, and deleting it just allowed cups-browsed to start using that name (so it worked then).

I'm trying to think about how to change the behaviour to be least-surprise, and I'm just not sure.

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