Bug 246726

Summary:	use system-install-packages for missing drivers
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Component:	system-config-printer	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	katzj
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Fixed In Version:	0.7.70-1.fc8	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2007-07-09 13:35:11 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Tim Waugh 2007-07-04 13:52:10 UTC

In system-config-printer it would be useful to be able to install a named
package.  When a PPD is installed, it can check to see what executable(s) it
needs, and can map those to package names if not found in the path.

All it can do with that at the moment is present a dialog suggesting that the
user install the relevant package.

It would be nice if it could ask pirut to install the package.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2007-07-04 14:59:41 UTC

Are you already mapping to package name?  If so, does
'/usr/bin/system-install-packages foo' not do what you want?

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2007-07-04 15:12:59 UTC

Ah, that's exactly what I'm looking for -- thanks.

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2007-07-04 18:09:37 UTC

..although actually it doesn't work.  It acts as though no arguments were
supplied even though they were.  I think the userhelper stuff is confusing it:

  \_ /usr/bin/system-install-packages pnm2ppa
      \_ /usr/sbin/userhelper -w system-install-packages pnm2ppa
          \_ /usr/bin/python -tt /usr/sbin/system-install-packages pnm2ppa

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2007-07-06 20:09:15 UTC

Works fine for me here -- what version of pirut do you have?

Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2007-07-09 12:19:30 UTC

Trying it on FC-6 with pirut-1.2.8-1.fc6 gives that behaviour anyway.

I can't seem to try it on F-8 at the moment because starting
system-config-printer as non-root doesn't display a window. :-/

Trying 'system-install-packages pnm2ppa' as non-root by hand works on F-8 though.

Comment 6 Jeremy Katz 2007-07-09 13:41:38 UTC

Ah, okay.  Yeah, it's F7 and later at the moment as that's what the patch was
provided for and Owen didn't care much about having it released as an FC6 update