By the way, unfortunately, the Fedora Core project (the replacement for the "free" RedHat Linux distribution) seems to be using CUPS only only according to the release notes. Replacing it with LPRng might be problematic because many other packages probably depend on it.
-akop On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 07:59:39AM -0800, Patrick Powell wrote: > I finally got around to updating this note and posting. > > The "redhat-switch-printer" program allows you to switch between LPRng and > CUPS on RedHat 9. I looked at their system, which apparently was taken > from Debian, and say 'Hats off to the Debian Folks, you clevel devils, you!" > > Idea: > > (If you have the RedHat 9 installed, do 'man alternatives' to get better details > on how they do switching.) > > The idea is that you have a set of utiltity functions that are the same > for several packages: > > function LPRng CUPS > lpr lpr.LPRng lpr.cups > lp lp.LPRng lp.cups > > ... > > You have a list of these 'alternatives' somewhere, say: > print= lpr lp lpq lprm lpc > > And a program, say 'alternatives', so when you do: > > alternatives --print LPRng > it makes the 'print' utilities symbolic links to the > lpr.LPRng, lp.LPRng, etc. > > alternatives --print cups > it makes the 'print' utilities symbolic links to the > lpr.cups, lp.cups, etc. > > Perhaps everybody knows about this, but I thought it was quite clever. > > Ummm... I will probably add a 'UpdateRedHat' script that > will check to see if there are the lpr.LPRng files and then > set the installation paths to the appropriate locations. > > Too bad that other LINUX/*BSD/*aris distributions do not have/adopt > the same technology as Debian/RedHat/*whatever. > > Patrick > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST > The address you post from MUST be your subscription address > > If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests > or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, > to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with: | example: > subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] > unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
