Re: Merge repositories for CUPS Snap and CUPS OCI/Docker Container into the CUPS repo itself

Till,

We might as well.  However, you should probably also document how you'll manage the versioning since there are so many other components that get packaged with CUPS to make a working snap...  Doing MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.BUILD versioning is probably sufficient for the snap versioning but it would be nice for users to be able to easily get a list of the bundled components and their versions as well.


> On Dec 20, 2024, at 6:55 PM, Till Kamppeter <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> when I started snapping CUPS back in 2017, the CUPS source was still maintained at Apple and therefore I created the separate repo cups-snap at OpenPrinting.
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> As I generally recommend that Snaps should be created by the respective upstream projects I am snapping all the projects of OpenPrinting, including CUPS, and also the (retro-fitting) Printer Applications and ipp-usb. As for the Printer Applications and ipp-usb the repositories were all the time at OpenPrinting I have included the files for snapping them right into their repositories. The same I did now also with the files to create the rockcraft-based OCI container images, on which Rudra (CCed) has worked in his GSoC project, with Cristovão (also CCed) as mentor.
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> Now we arrived also at the point what to do with CUPS, and my suggestion is to not only add the OCI-container-related files to the CUPS 2.x repository "cups" but then also migrate "cups-snap" to "cups", so that all the distribution-independent packaging methods are included in the "cups" repository, where also the code is.
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> For CUPS 3.x we can then migrate the two packaging methods Snap and OCI container over to the two new CUPS daemons, "cups-local" and "cups-sharing", so that each of them will be available in the Snap Store but also on OCI container image "stores" like DockerHub.
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> This is Rudra's final report of his GSoC project:
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> https://medium.com/@rudransh.iitm/gsoc-2024-final-report-container-chronicles-759fe7f23ac6
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> This is Rudra's repository of the CUPS container image:
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> https://github.com/rudra-iitm/cups-rock
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> Rudra's work on the retro-fitting Printer Applications is already in the appropriate repositories "ps-printer-app", "ghostscript-printer-app", "hplip-printer-app", "gutenprint-printer-app".
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> Mike, WDYT? Should we migrate the Snap and OCI-image repos into the CUPS one?
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>   Till
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