[Bug 574396] Re: Jockey very slow when searching/downloading/installing printer drivers from OpenPrinting

[Till Kamppeter]

The general detection process is already accelerated by replacing the
Foomatic XML database with a compressed PPD archive and by a small bug
fix in system-config-printer. Nevertheless we also need to have the
option of Jockey only searching for a driver for a given device without
scanning the whole system. So we should consider the patch as an interim
solution for Ubuntu until bigger architecture changes for a general
solution are done.

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Jockey very slow when searching/downloading/installing printer drivers from OpenPrinting
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Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed
Status in “jockey” source package in Lucid: Won't Fix

Bug description:
If a printer is set up with system-config-printer and no locally installed driver is available, system-config-printer automatically searches for a driver on OpenPrinting via Jockey. Search, download, and installation of the driver take rather long time.

To reproduce, run the following command line in a terminal window:

system-config-printer --setup-printer='file:/tmp/printout' --devid='MFG:Ricoh;MDL:Aficio SP C820DN;'

This will fake the detection of a Ricoh Aficio SP C820DN for which there is no driver/PPD in a default installation of Ubuntu.

If a local driver is found, please run the command

sudo dpkg -P openprinting-ppds-extra linuxprinting.org-ppds-extra openprinting-ppds-postscript-ricoh

to uninstall the locally installed driver and run the command shown above again.