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Bug 125367 - CUPS - examine enabling of raw printing during installtion
Summary: CUPS - examine enabling of raw printing during installtion
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Printing (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement
Assignee: Printing Team
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Reported: 2006-03-07 08:41 UTC by Chris Smith
Modified: 2006-06-01 11:59 UTC (History)
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Description Chris Smith 2006-03-07 08:41:20 UTC 
The CUPS ebuild enables raw printing as a default installation by modifying the some CUPS files:
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 dosed "s:#application/octet-stream:application/octet-stream:" /etc/cups/mime.types /etc/cups/mime.convs
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Basically just wondering if it might safer to not do this. For one, it is no longer necessary for Windows users printing via Samba as Samba has a "cups option" parameter that can handle this if necessary. From man smb.conf:
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You  should  set  this parameter to raw if your CUPS server error_log file contains messages such as
              "Unsupported format 'application/octet-stream'" when printing from a Windows client  through  Samba.
              It is no longer necessary to enable system wide raw printing in /etc/cups/mime.{convs,types}.
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Comment 1 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-06-01 11:59:43 UTC 
the sed has been removed in cups 1.2.1 effectively disabling raw printing.