[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cups problems

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 16.05.23 um 18:58 schrieb Alan Coopersmith:
> On 5/16/23 09:37, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>> I've found a few problems with cups
>>
>> 1) it wants system/volatile/cups, but /system/volatile doesn't exist.
>>     Works if created manually and restart cups/in-lpd and /scheduler.
>>     Either system/volatile should be created somehow after boot before
>>     cups starts, or cups should be patched to put that into
>> /var/run/cups;
>>     but...
>
> On Solaris, /etc/svc/volatile and /var/run were combined & renamed into
> /system/volatile and a symlink made from /var/run to /system/volatile for
> backwards compatibility, but I didn't think illumos/OI had made that
> change.
> (While Solaris made the change in the 11.0 release, it happened in
> snv_159,
> after the ON source releases ended.)
>
> The OI makefile seems to have copied the
> --with-rundir=/system/volatile/cups
> from the Solaris makefile though, which may be a mistake:
>
> https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/blob/oi/hipster/components/print/cups/Makefile#L66
>
>
> https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/cups/Makefile#L59
>
Thanks Alan for the hint and the background. I have created a PR to fix
this.

Regards
Andreas