RHEL6 support?

[williamkorb]

Requesting RHEL 6 support.

Given RHEL 6.9 with Puppet Enterprise 2017.3 and CUPS cups-1.4.2-78.el6_9.x86_64.

When I have tried to configure via Hiera data as follows:

cups::web_interface: false
cups::package_manage: false
cups::resources:
  mylp:
    ensure: printer
    uri: lpd://print.domain.lcl/mylp

In order to Do basic print queue configuration

Then I get the error message:

With package_manage set to true/default:

Error: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install cups-ipptool' returned 1: Error: Nothing to do
Error: /Stage[main]/Cups::Packages/Package[cups-ipptool]/ensure: change from purged to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install cups-ipptool' returned 1: Error: Nothing to do

With package_manage set to false:

Error: /Stage[main]/Cups::Server::Services/Service[cups]: Failed to call refresh: Could not start Service[cups]: Execution of '/sbin/service cups start' returned 1: Starting cups: cupsd: Child exited with status 1!
[FAILED]
Error: /Stage[main]/Cups::Server::Services/Service[cups]: Could not start Service[cups]: Execution of '/sbin/service cups start' returned 1: Starting cups: cupsd: Child exited with status 1!
[FAILED]
Info: Class[Cups]: Unscheduling all events on Class[Cups]
Info: Stage[main]: Unscheduling all events on Stage[main]
Error: Could not find a suitable provider for cups_queue

[leoarnold]

We never supported RHEL 6, but you might be able to get it to work: You will need to install the ipptool binary yourself as it does not ship with CUPS 1.4. Any version of ipptool should do, so copy it over from a contemporary CentOS / Fedora or compile it from source. Write a manifest which installs (say) /usr/bin/ipptool/ before handling class { 'cups': package_names => 'cups' }. Hope that does the trick for you.

[leoarnold]

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