I have been trying to explore the XPrint server. I emerged net-print/xprint with some difficulties and submitted bug 64553. The bug was set to "RESOLVED WONTFIX", and I was informed that the package was soon to be eliminated and to use the XPrint server in xorg-x11. Looking at the xorg-x11 package, I find the executable '/usr/X11R6/bin/Xprt' is included; but there is no init script in '/etc/init.d', no config files, no manpages, and no documentation for XPrint. (xorg-x11 was emerged with USE="doc".) I am completely new to XPrint, and I would find an init script and sample config files to be very useful. lanius@gentoo.org suggested I open a new bug and have it assigned to x11@gentoo.org. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
The init scripts aren't installed because they aren't Gentoo-style init scripts. If you would like some that are Gentoo-style, feel free to contribute them. I'd have no problem adding them. If you have both xprint and doc in USE, all available xprint stuff and documentation should be installed. I'm not at a Gentoo computer now, but it looks like you should at least have xp_library.PS.gz and xp_proto.PS.gz installed. There's some more documentation available in 6.8.0 but it appears that it's not installed unless you have the DocBook tool package installed. http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xorg/xc/doc/hardcopy/XPRINT/?only_with_tag=XORG-6_8-branch There appear to be quite a few man pages, also. These are NOT in 6.7, only 6.8. http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xorg/xc/doc/man/Xp/?only_with_tag=XORG-6_8-branch Have you checked out http://xprint.mozdev.org/ ? I'm marking this INVALID because there is basically no other documentation to install in 6.7, so asking for it doesn't make sense. Try using 6.8 instead. Please reopen this bug if you believe it is still valid for some reason and elaborate on why.
I was expecting an init script, since a bare bones one is included in net-print/xprint. I still think one should be included, although at this point I couldn't improve upon the one in net-print/xprint-009. I was having trouble because I was looking at http://xprint.mozdev.org/docs/Xprint_FAQ.html#how_do_i_start_xprt. The answer (part 4) refers to files that weren't installed by xorg-x11-6.7.0-r1, '.../Xprint/etc/init.d/xprint' and '.../Xprint/etc/profile.d/xprint.sh'. I don't know if these files exist in 6.7.0--I just saw that the FAQ didn't exist until 6.7.99. I'll wait for 6.8.0 (x86) to be unmasked. Hopefully '.../Xprint/etc/' and below are included in the ebuild so I have a place to start. BTW, xp_library.PS.gz and xp_proto.PS.gz were not installed by 6.7.0-r1 with USE="xprint doc ...".
I'm not going to install useless files (i.e., Red Hat-style init scripts). If someone tells me exactly which files in that structure are not useless on Gentoo, I'll install them.
