Bug 66004

Summary:	missing dependency in cups-drivers RPM
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Anand Buddhdev <arb>
Component:	foomatic	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Description Anand Buddhdev 2002-06-04 19:30:29 UTC

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Description of problem:
cups needs the filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic to be able to print to an
HP laserjet 5000 printer. This filter is part of foomatic, but foomatic is not
listed as a dependency of cups, and when I removed foomatic, cups stopped
printing. It took me over 2 hours to figure out the problem. So the cups RPM
should have foomatic as a dependency.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install cups, but NOT foomatic. Remove foomatic if already installed.
2. Configure an HP laserjet 5000 printer with cups
3. Attempt to print to this printer - it will fail
	

Actual Results:  Print jobs do not print. The error log for cups shows that the
filter process stopped with exit code 22. Not a very helpful description

Expected Results:  The file I submitted for printing should have printed.

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Comment 1 Peter Schwenke 2002-08-06 01:51:16 UTC

I had a similar situation.  I'd installed cups previously on RH7.1 when I bought
my Epson Stylus Photo 1290.
(http://space.tin.it/computer/wvtberti/linux/stp_driver/gs_stp.htm back in
December) This was from an RPM linked from the  I chose the upgrade option for
RH7.3.  

Printing was completely broken until I eventually decided to reinstall cups from
my RedHat CDs and saw the cups-drivers RPMs.

Installing the drivers fixed the problem.

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2002-10-11 11:34:48 UTC

cupsomatic is only needed for foomatic-created PPD files.  But yes, in general 
you often want to use them and a requirement certainly wouldn't hurt.

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2002-10-17 10:18:06 UTC

Actually the problem is that the cups-drivers package doesn't require foomatic.

Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2002-10-21 17:04:59 UTC

cups-drivers package removed; redhat-config-printer has no need for it.