ChangeLog
2010/05/30 - 1.3.11 -> 1.4.3
- Updated the Slackware note for 13.0 and 13.1
2010/04/30 - Java howto link: j2sdk -> jdk
2009/07/12 - 1.3.7 -> 1.3.11
- Updated Slackware note for 12.2, removed older than 11.0
2008/07/03 - Updated Slackware note for 12.1
2008/04/03 - 1.2.12 -> 1.3.7
- Updated Slackware note for 12.0
2007 Aug 15 - 1.2.11 -> 1.2.12
- Note about 1.3.0
2007 Jun 09 - 1.2.10 -> 1.2.11
2007 Apr 19 - 1.2.7 -> 1.2.10
2007 Apr 16 - Removed gawk, sed, grep links
Nov 28, 2006 - 1.2.5 -> 1.2.7
Oct 26, 2006 - 1.2.2 -> 1.2.5
- Updated Slackware note for 11.0
- Added prerequisite links for D-Bus, OpenLDAP, pkg-config
Aug 2, 2006 - 1.2.1 -> 1.2.2
- Removed the notes about cups' early security problems
Jun 9, 2006 - Added a few tidbits of configuration info
Jun 8, 2006 - 1.1.23 -> 1.2.1
- Updated Slackware note for 10.2
- Added uninstall instructions at the bottom
Feb 17, 2006 - Only run removepkg if it exists
- Typo: fixed source path of installed cups.sh
Sep 22, 2005 - Updated the part that handles backing up /etc/cups
(if it exists)
Jun 15, 2005 - "gnutls" prerequisite is now a link to the new howto
- Updated Slackware note for 10.1
- Removed make, gcc, binutils, and fileutils/coreutils links
- root.root -> root:root, run it when $UID = 0
- Rearrange options to shut up the new version of find
- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
- Updated various notes
Jan 5, 2005 - 1.1.22 -> 1.1.23
- Instead of mkdir rc0.d rc1.d, etc., use rc{0,1,...}.d
- Added links to alternate download URLs (ftp2 is _very_
slow right now)
Dec 21, 2004 - 1.1.21 -> 1.1.22
Sep 16, 2004 - 1.1.20 -> 1.1.21
- Added " or coreutils" to the fileutils prerequisite
- Replaced md5sum -> textutils link with a link to coreutils
- Added a note about OpenSSL
- Added a note about Java
- Updated notes about init scripts, added a few blurbs to
create the SysV-style init script dirs if supported
- Added a missing * to the part that moves things from
/usr/local/src/cups/ to /usr/local/src/
May 27, 2004 - Added a note to the bottom about adding a fax printer
Mar 18, 2004 - Changed Java prereq to point to my j2sdk howto
Mar 2, 2004 - Fixed the prereq link to nroff -> groff
Jan 7, 2004 - 1.1.19 -> 1.1.20
- No more ~/installed/cups/ and /usr/local/src/cups/
(because everything other than cups is in it's own howto
now)
- Changed download URL from ftp (Nevada) to ftp2 (Maryland),
it's closer to me
- Updated security-related notes
- Added lots more prerequisites
Sep 30, 2003 - Split hpijs and espgs off into their own howtos
- Added a link to my libjpeg howto
Aug 5, 2003 - Fixed the link to the textutils howto
Jul 25, 2003 - Set to 'removepkg cups', it's included in Slack 9's "extra"
- Set to 'removepkg espgs', it's part of Slack 9's ap series
- In addition to 'removepkg gsfonts', also 'removepkg
gnu-gs-fonts' (renamed to the latter in Slack 9)
- Put the fonts into /usr/share/ghostscript instead of
/usr/local/share/ghostscript
- Changed the espgs prefix from /usr/local to /usr
- Added removal of /usr/share/doc/hpijs-* dirs (done after
removepkg is called, in case removepkg leaves the blank
dir there or something like that)
Jul 1, 2003 - 1.1.18 -> 1.1.19, added md5sum verification of tarball
- espgs (their modified ghostscript) 7.05.5 -> 7.05.6,
md5sum verification of it, removepkg of ghostscript and
gs_x11
- Added --prefix=/usr/local to building it, otherwise it
uses the word NONE for the prefix...
- Added removepkg of gsfonts, creation of
/usr/local/share/ghostscript if it does not exist
- hpijs 1.3 -> 1.4.1, added removepkg hpijs
Jan 13, 2003 - Added notes about security problems in older versions of
cups
Jan 10, 2003 - Updated notes about removing old lpr
- Added notes about setting up a cups client
Jan 3, 2003 - First entry