On 6/5/07, Leonardo Boselli <leo@dicea.unifi.it> wrote:
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Leonardo Boselli wrote: > On two lenny computer a plain update bring in cupsys-lpd that in turn > removed lpr service. OOOOOPS : Read: "On lenny a plain update brings in cupsys-bsd that in turn removes lpr package and consequently the lpd services." (note also that it removes the executable, but leaves the script in etc/init.d)
Thanks for this extra detail. cupsys-bsd indeed conflicts with lpr, because it provides the same service, that is a BSD printing service on port 515. additionally, it provides BSD-style commands to manipulate the printer spool. The way dpkg works, a package removal only removes the binaries; it leaves the startup scripts and configuration files in place. If you want to purge the scripts and configuration files too, you need to manually specify -P for dpkg or --purge for APT's removal command. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://q-funk.iki.fi