archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs — Issue #125: foomatic package causes cups to find no drivers
Author: GromBeestje
Created: 2012-01-25 23:02:46+00:00
State: open

When the foomatic is installed, it's not possible to add a printer driver.
CUPS will report "Unable to get list of printer drivers".

To reproduce:
install cups, foomatic-db, foomatic-db-engine, foomatic-filters, gutenprint
try to add a printer through the cups web interface
see the error message
remove foomatic-db, foomatic-db-engine, foomatic-filters,
try to add the printer again though the cups web interface
see the list of printer drivers

Looking at /var/log/cups/error_log there are a lot of messages like this

...
W [25/Jan/2012:13:39:43 +0100] [CGI] Missing NickName and ModelName in /usr/share/cups/model/foomatic-db-ppds/Epson/eplp830c.ppd.gz!
W [25/Jan/2012:13:39:43 +0100] [CGI] Missing NickName and ModelName in /usr/share/cups/model/foomatic-db-ppds/Epson/eplp980c.ppd.gz!
W [25/Jan/2012:13:39:43 +0100] [CGI] Missing NickName and ModelName in /usr/share/cups/model/foomatic-db-ppds/Epson
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