Hello, FYI: more "funny" stuff while I tried to clean up the mess On Jan 16 16:38 Johannes Meixner wrote (excerpt):
On my machine binaries/cups*15*rpm are the current cups Packages from Factory. ... One needs to enforce rpm to install that broken stuff: ... As a consequence when using our higher level package management tools one gets a messed up CUPS installation: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # ls -l /usr/share/cups/fonts lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 16 16:14 /usr/share/cups/fonts -> ../ghostscript/fonts
# ls -l # ls -l /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/Monospace* -r--r--r-- 1 root root 187953 Jan 9 17:28 /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/Monospace -r--r--r-- 1 root root 159532 Jan 9 17:28 /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/Monospace-Bold -r--r--r-- 1 root root 166263 Jan 9 17:28 /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/Monospace-BoldOblique -r--r--r-- 1 root root 185301 Jan 9 17:28 /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/Monospace-Oblique
# rpm -qf /usr/share/cups/fonts/Monospace cups-1.5.4-15.1.i586
# rpm -qf /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/Monospace cups-1.5.4-15.1.i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
To clean up that messed up CUPS installation I "just upgraded" to the CUPS packages from "Printing" which are on my machine binaries/cups*136*rpm binary RPM files: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- # rpm -Uhv binaries/cups-1.5.4-136.1.i586.rpm \ binaries/cups-client-1.5.4-136.1.i586.rpm \ binaries/cups-libs-1.5.4-136.1.i586.rpm warning: binaries/cups-1.5.4-136.1.i586.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 98c4529d: NOKEY Preparing... ################################# [100%] Updating / installing... 1:cups-libs-1.5.4-136.1 ################################# [ 17%] 2:cups-client-1.5.4-136.1 ################################# [ 33%] 3:cups-1.5.4-136.1 ################################# [ 50%] Updating /etc/sysconfig/cups... Cleaning up / removing... 4:cups-1.5.4-15.1 ################################# [ 67%] redirecting to systemctl try-restart cups 5:cups-client-1.5.4-15.1 ################################# [ 83%] 6:cups-libs-1.5.4-15.1 ################################# [100%] # ls -l /usr/share/cups/fonts lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 16 18:11 /usr/share/cups/fonts -> CUPSfonts # ls -l /usr/share/cups/fonts/ total 0 # ls -l /usr/share/cups/CUPSfonts/ total 0 # ls -l /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/Monospace* -r--r--r-- 1 root root 187953 Jan 9 17:28 /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/Monospace -r--r--r-- 1 root root 159532 Jan 9 17:28 /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/Monospace-Bold -r--r--r-- 1 root root 166263 Jan 9 17:28 /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/Monospace-BoldOblique -r--r--r-- 1 root root 185301 Jan 9 17:28 /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/Monospace-Oblique # rpm -qf /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/Monospace file /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/Monospace is not owned by any package # rpm -V cups S.5....T. c /etc/cups/cupsd.conf missing /usr/share/cups/CUPSfonts/Monospace missing /usr/share/cups/CUPSfonts/Monospace-Bold missing /usr/share/cups/CUPSfonts/Monospace-BoldOblique missing /usr/share/cups/CUPSfonts/Monospace-Oblique ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Of course there are no /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts/Monospace* files in the CUPS packages from "Printing": In binaries/cups-1.5.4-136.1.i586.rpm there is only drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 10 12:53 /usr/share/cups/CUPSfonts -r--r--r-- 1 root root 187953 Jan 10 12:53 /usr/share/cups/CUPSfonts/Monospace -r--r--r-- 1 root root 159532 Jan 10 12:53 /usr/share/cups/CUPSfonts/Monospace-Bold -r--r--r-- 1 root root 166263 Jan 10 12:53 /usr/share/cups/CUPSfonts/Monospace-BoldOblique -r--r--r-- 1 root root 185301 Jan 10 12:53 /usr/share/cups/CUPSfonts/Monospace-Oblique lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 10 12:53 /usr/share/cups/fonts -> CUPSfonts This again proves even more: Once a package did not 100% carefully circumvent RPM's inability to exchange directories by links and vice versa, a practically endless sequence of further mess upon mess upon mess happens... Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org