Vincent, On Jun 27, 2013, at 8:21 AM, Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote: > On 2013-06-27 11:28:51 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> This problem still occurs after the upgrade to cups 1.6.2-10. > > In the changelog: > > printers' list to avoid jobs to go to unexpected printers > (Closes: #711848) > > This patch was modifying the cupsGetDests2() function, which was > already working here and was not used by lp and lpr. These commands > use cupsGetNamedDest() instead, and the bug seems to be there. I've > written a patch (attached) to modify cupsGetNamedDest() so that it > mimics what lpq does: instead of using > > _cupsGetDests(http, CUPS_GET_DEFAULT, NULL, &dest, 0, 0) > > which returns a wrong default (the system default instead of the > default from ~/.cups/lpoptions), it uses cupsGetDests2 and gets > the default. > > I don't know whether this patch is clean (in particular, I'm not sure > about the memory handling) and I haven't tested it extensively, but it > solves my problem. > > BTW, it's rather annoying that different functions/commands use > different interfaces to get the default printer. This leads to > inconsistencies, as shown here.
cupsGetNamedDest was created specifically to avoid getting the whole printer list because that can take a long time (comparatively). I will investigate a separate fix for cupsGetNamedDest that uses the lpoptions default over the system default. That said, The inconsistencies reflect the desires of Linux distributors, users, and Apple - originally there was One True Default printer, maintained by the administrator for the system. Then one could set a network default if no local default existed. Then we needed user-savable options and defaults. Then we needed to be able to set system-side defaults. Then we wanted a last-used-printer scheme if no user default was set. Aaarrrggghhh! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avpFGlv7iw8) _________________________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-printing-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/b2216b48-dd2f-471f-8094-b5bf025f1...@apple.com
