On 05/26/2012 04:59 PM, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote:
Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 05/26/2012 12:32 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
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>> Now, if hp-setup could only tell me what it downloaded, and where it dumped
>> whatever it loaded on the filesystem…
> Hey, it is proprietary so why should they tell you? :-)
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# whereis hp-setup
hp-setup: /usr/bin/hp-setup
# rpm -qf /usr/bin/hp-setup
hplip-3.12.2-4.fc16.i686
# rpm -qi hplip|grep -i licens
License : GPLv2+ and MIT
Although PPD files may be proprietary, hplip itself isn't.
And despite of it, there IMO should be traceable what in filesystem
was changed. Probably not only in GPL OSes.
Of course the HP process, either hp-setup or hp-plugin, should tell you where/what it
is downloading and where these files are being placed. I had hoped that would have
been logged in /var/log/hp but it isn't. Hence my smiley face....
The files being added aren't PPD files, FWIW.
For the curious, they can download
http://hplip.sf.net/plugin.conf and then determine
which plugin archive needs to be downloaded based on the version of hplip installed.
In the 3.12.2 they would then need to download
http://www.openprinting.org/download/printdriver/auxfiles/HP/plugins/hpli...
You can then look in the begining of that file to determine you can execute it with
--list and have it return the list of files being added to your system.
Using that bit of information you can find the files added....with a little bit of
detective work.
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