Re: [Gimp-print-devel] 5.3 snapshot for Mac?

[Matt B. <wal...@ma...>]

> On Jul 22, 2019, at 1:21 PM, Matt Broughton <wal...@ma...> wrote:
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>> On Jul 22, 2019, at 1:05 PM, Matthew Broughton <mab...@fa... <mailto:mab...@fa...>> wrote:
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>>> On Jul 22, 2019, at 12:54 PM, Robert Krawitz <rl...@al... <mailto:rl...@al...>> wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 12:52:09 -0500, Matthew Broughton wrote:
>>>>> On Jul 15, 2019, at 9:05 PM, Steve Letter via Gimp-print-devel <gim...@li... <mailto:gim...@li...>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> All,  I still don't have 100% confidence, I know I still have parts of the build to look at.  (libgutenprint.9.dylib for example)  However, I was able to print with the build I put up here:
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>>>>>                                     gutenprint-5.3.2-pre1.dmg <https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/files/snapshots/gutenprint-5.3.2-pre1.dmg/download <https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/files/snapshots/gutenprint-5.3.2-pre1.dmg/download>>
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>>>>> Gutenprint - Top Quality Printer Drivers ...
>>>>> Your download will start shortly...
>>>>> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/files/snapshots/gutenprint-5.3.2-pre1.dmg/download <https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/files/snapshots/gutenprint-5.3.2-pre1.dmg/download>>
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>>>>> My printer is technically not a supported printer so I need more folks to test that it is operating properly.  In tech terms, my build is still a bit wonky.
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>>>>> Steve Letter 
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>>>> I will confirm that I, too, was able to print with the gutenprint-5.3.2-pre1.dmg.  I still want to look at a CUPS error log to see if there is any that stands out there.
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>>>> I did find a fault with the installer.  I will not update existing PPDs.  The installer log says:
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>>>> Jul 22 10:54:51 Borodin installd[1116]: ./postinstall: Updating Gutenprint printer queues...
>>>> Jul 22 10:54:51 Borodin installd[1116]: ./postinstall: Skipping /private/etc/cups/ppd/WorkForce_1100_GP.ppd: mismatched file versions (old 5.2, new 5.3); will not update without -x!
>>>> Jul 22 10:54:51 Borodin installd[1116]: ./postinstall: Did not update any PPD files
>>>> Jul 22 10:54:51 Borodin installd[1116]: PackageKit: Writing receipt for org.gutenprint.printer-driver to /
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>>>> I added a new printer using Printers & Scanners.  The driver for Gutenprint was very strange:
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>>>> "5.3.2-pre1-2019-06-16T01-00-e55733ff"
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>>>> After I added the new printer, I ran the cups-genppdupdate manually using `sudo`.  It was able to update the new printer but still could not handle the old 5.2.14.x PPD
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>>>> matt$ sudo /Library/Printers/Gutenprint.printerDriver/Contents/MacOS/cups-genppdupdate 
>>>> Password:
>>>> Updated /private/etc/cups/ppd/WF1100_53_1.ppd using gutenprint.5.3://escp2-wf1100/expert <gutenprint.5.3://escp2-wf1100/expert>
>>>> Skipping /private/etc/cups/ppd/WorkForce_1100_GP.ppd: mismatched file versions (old 5.2, new 5.3); will not update without -x!
>>>> Updated 1 PPD file, 11 skipped.  Restart cupsd for the changes to take effect.
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>>>> I have never encountered `-x!`
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>>> This was discussed a while back.  This is to allow people to continue
>>> to run 5.3 alongside 5.2.  It doesn't matter for the Mac, so you
>>> should always use -x.
>>> -- 
>>> Robert Krawitz                                     <rl...@al... <mailto:rl...@al...>>
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>> I do remember part of that discussion.  I just used `cups-genppdupdate -x` manually and everything is fine.  It would seem that this would be a simple fix for the Mac installer.  Just use `cups-genppdupdate -x` in the post install script.  I will leave the implementation to you and Steve.
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>> Matt
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> That still leaves the problem (?) of the PPD File version "5.3.2-pre1-2019-06-16T01-00-e55733ff"

Oops.  I forgot to check the backend.  The gutenprint53+usb backend is not there.  That's a killer for this package.

Matt