Re: CUPS in a snap: avahi-daemon needed

2017-01-26 Thread David Barth
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 8:30 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote: > On 01/25/2017 05:18 PM, Sergio Schvezov wrote: > > snapweb uses a small mdns implementation written in go; avahi is much more >> than that. >> That said, the original versions of snapweb, formerlly known as webdm

Re: CUPS in a snap: avahi-daemon needed

2017-01-25 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 01/25/2017 05:18 PM, Sergio Schvezov wrote: snapweb uses a small mdns implementation written in go; avahi is much more than that. That said, the original versions of snapweb, formerlly known as webdm did have a full blown avahi-daemon inside, but it is really cumbersome if not needed.

Re: CUPS in a snap: avahi-daemon needed

2017-01-25 Thread Sergio Schvezov
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 13:43:43 -0500, Jim Hodapp wrote: > I'm not exactly sure how functional it is in the snapweb package, but you > can see that snapweb does package and use avahi to provide the ability to > type a mdns address into a browser to get to the snapweb store by default: > >

Re: CUPS in a snap: avahi-daemon needed

2017-01-25 Thread Till Kamppeter
On 01/25/2017 04:52 PM, Kyle Fazzari wrote: Well there's a difference between using avahi and just broadcasting mDNS yourself, which is what I believe snapweb does, correct? CUPS is not able to broadcast shared printers by itself. It registers them at avahi-daemon and avahi-daemon broadcasts

Re: CUPS in a snap: avahi-daemon needed

2017-01-25 Thread Kyle Fazzari
Well there's a difference between using avahi and just broadcasting mDNS yourself, which is what I believe snapweb does, correct? On 01/25/2017 10:43 AM, Jim Hodapp wrote: > I'm not exactly sure how functional it is in the snapweb package, but > you can see that snapweb does package and use avahi

Re: CUPS in a snap: avahi-daemon needed

2017-01-25 Thread Jim Hodapp
I'm not exactly sure how functional it is in the snapweb package, but you can see that snapweb does package and use avahi to provide the ability to type a mdns address into a browser to get to the snapweb store by default: https://github.com/snapcore/snapweb On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 12:29 PM,

CUPS in a snap: avahi-daemon needed

2017-01-25 Thread Till Kamppeter
Hi, I am currently snapping CUPS (both for server and for desktop/phone printing needs) and testing it on Ubuntu Core. Here I have found out that there is no avahi-daemon (which CUPS needs for sharing local printers and for discovering remote network printers. Now I want to know what I