The cups-pk-helper package contains a PolicyKit helper used to configure Cups with fine-grained privileges.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.0 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://www.freedesktop.org/software/cups-pk-helper/releases/cups-pk-helper-0.2.6.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: a9045c7db6e502d6496da8fc71d8820e
Download size: 160 KB
Estimated disk space required: 5.9 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
Cups-2.3.3op2 and Polkit-0.119
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/cups-pk-helper
First, fix some deprecated syntax that will prevent cups-pk-helper from building on future versions of CUPS:
patch -Np1 -i ../cups-pk-helper-0.2.6-consolidated_fixes-1.patch
Install cups-pk-helper by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root
user:
make install
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