Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 67337
cups DocumentRoot is /usr/share/doc
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:43:32 EDT
Description of problem: The CUPS configuration file which KDE writes is different from the default RH setup, noticeably it doesn't define the DocumentRoot to be /usr/share/doc/cups-<version>, which makes the web interface work rather badly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.0.0-12 Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install cups RPM without additional configuration (the default config file consists almost entirely of comments only). 2.Open print:/manager, "configure server" 3.Save configuration Actual Results: Opening http://localhost:631 and other pages reports errors Expected Results: Opening http://localhost:631 produces the CUPS interface index page Additional info: It seems that once the setting is explicitly mentioned in the configuration file, the KDE tool is able to read it, it just uses different default. Maybe it would help if the default CUPS config file enumerated all the options explicitly, even if we want the default values, but it seems rather ugly to me...
Fixed in cups-1.1.15-3 (symlink added because other applications will probably expect it there, as well).
Sorry for not saying this earlier, but what do web page templates do in /usr/share/doc anyway? It seems to me that allowing the user to rm -rf /usr/share/doc without affecting system functionality would follow the principle of least surprise.
The templates are in /usr/share/cups/templates. /usr/share/doc/cups contains the documentation for CUPS, and CUPS will continue to work just fine without it (although it will make it more difficult for the user to open the printer status pages, for example...)
Indeed the situation has changed since the original bug report, but the templates still reference images placed in /usr/share/cups-1.1.8/images in the cups-1.1.18-4 package. Oh, and this probably belongs to cups.
Is this still an issue?
Yes, as far as I can see. See /usr/share/doc/cups-1.1.19/{images,*.css,documentation.html,robots.txt} for some files that _obviously_ should be installed even with rpm -i --excludedocs (never mind the actual documentation and files I'm not sure about).
Same in cups-1.1.20-5.1.