On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:59:10PM -0700, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 05:30:53 +0100
> Antoine Jacoutot <ajacou...@bsdfrog.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:04:59PM +0000, Bernte wrote:
> > > Hi -
> > > 
> > > Since upgrading to 5.6, I am having problems to detect my Brother USB
> > > printer in CUPS.
> > > 
> > > The problem is that the printer is not found by the 'usb' backend:
> > 
> > Your cups package is not up to date. You need the one from 5.6 stable.
> > 
> 
> Bj Antoine. 
> 
> cups-1.7.4p0.tgz is in release, and cups-2.0.1.tgz is in snapshot.  Is
> there something in between, that would be in the errata if there was 
> one for snapshot like there's a http://www.openbsd.org/plus.html between
> 5.6 and 5.6+ ?

Use ports. Just checkout the OPENBSD_5_6 branch.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#PortsSecurity

> I've tried 1.7.4p0 on both i386 and amd64 with results strikingly like 
> those describe by Bernte.  Hmmm.  Do I build 2.0 from ports or up to
> the snap and take my chances on other things.... Or attempt to backup
> to 1.4 or 1.5? 

1.7.4p0 is not the latest port for OpenBSD 5.6, it is 1.7.4p1.

Revision 1.182.2.1 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Thu Sep 11 
09:55:33 2014 UTC (2 months, 2 weeks ago) by ajacoutot 
Branch: OPENBSD_5_6 
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Fix USB printing.


-- 
Antoine

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