Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/print/cups

[Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 12:16:26AM +1200, Mark Davies wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 June 2009 22:57:31 Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 12:44:31PM +0200, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> > > Are you sure?
> >
> > No, but the PLIST was wrong for me and there was no pdftops built.
> 
> But I am (Thomas just beat me to making the same change).
> 
> > > My pdftops in /usr/pkg/libexec/cups/filter is not a link and the
> > > size of it differs from the one in /usr/pkg/bin
> > >
> > > And why gs, that provides a ps2pdf not the pstopdf
> >
> > The configure script claims to support it.
> 
> With 1.3.10 cups stopped providing its own copy of the pdftops from xpdf 
> (which it kept having to make the same security patches to) and instead 
> made its pdftops a wrapper that dealt with the arguments in the form that 
> it expected and then called a real pdftops or gs to do the conversion.

I see. I still have 1.3.9 here.

Btw, I would have prefered to not default to poppler-utils, because that has
a conflicts line with xpdf. Instead it should default to gs which doesn't have
this kind of conflicts problem.

Bernd