Filed as Apple Bug Report:
<rdar://problem/14290628> cups.org: cupsGetNamedDest returns the wrong
default printer
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.
>
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> <cups-1.6-dest.patch>
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair
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