On 10/26/17 07:24, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
It is well known that cups does not need avahi.
Avahi is an option, it requires dbus, which requires X11. If you have a server
with limited resources and without X11, you cannot install the present cups
package.
Please remove cups's dependency on avahi.
Check the FAQs for how to build ports.
It's possible to build a version of cups without avahi.
You would need to do it on a moderately capable system:
any recent laptop or desktop system would suffice.
It must have the same type of CPU as your target system.
I'm not sure I have all the details correct, but this is
what should work.
After setting up your system to build ports from
the instructions in the FAQ:
go to /usr/ports/print/cups and edit Makefile to
remove all mentions of avahi and mdns
make print-build-depends > list_of_dependencies
go through that list and install all of them using
pkg_add. This saves considerable time since the
make will build and install all missing dependencies.
This is the crucial step:
make CONFIGURE_ARGS='--disable-avahi --disable-mdns'
you may have to use 'doas' for this step:
make package
this will create a cups package which can be installed
with pkg_add on the system of your choice.
It -will- install dbus. Removing that is harder.
When this works you should probably work with the ports
group to make this version available. They may not accept
it because compiling another version of cups on their
build systems would take too long. In any case posting
a succinct list of the changes you had to make might
be interesting to some people.
geoff steckel
