[sane-devel] dll.conf question

[m. allan noah]

hplip should not modify dll.conf. take a look at the handling for
/etc/sane.d/dll.d

allan

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 6:33 PM, John Freed <okg at johnfreed.com> wrote:
> I've been working on a port of the HPLIP software to Mac OS X, using
> MacPorts. (The SANE project says it doesn't include HPAIO because it's
> supported by HPLIP, but HPLIP explicitly does not support the Mac.)
>
> In the process, I discovered that HPLIP (which provides the hpaio backend)
> appends a line "hpaio" to dll.conf to activate it.
>
> This line is then overwritten the next time sane-backends is upgraded.
>
> I then realized that this is the case with ALL upgrades of sane-backends and
> is thus a general problem. It dawned on me that perhaps a better approach
> might be something along these lines:
>
> 1) check to see if dll.conf exists in the install directory. If it doesn't,
> install dll.conf.in
>
> 2) if it already exists, either leave it alone, or (better) do something
> like this:
> -- create a version of dll.conf (call it dll.conf.null) with ALL backends
> commented out
> -- grep -v ^# dll.conf >> dll.conf.null
> -- install the modified dll.conf.null in place of dll.conf
>
> This will give an updated list of all the backends, but only activate the
> ones that were previously active (and not delete items like hpaio that were
> active but not part of the official sane-backends package).
>
>
>
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