redhat man page for foomatic-compiledb

FOOMATIC-COMPILEDB(1)					      General Commands Manual					     FOOMATIC-COMPILEDB(1)

NAME
       foomatic-compiledb - compile the foomatic driver database

SYNOPSIS
       foomatic-compiledb [-f ] [-j n ] [ driver ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
       foomatic-compiledb  generates all Foomatic data files for a given spooler (or Foomatic combo XML files) and either all drivers/printers, or
       a selected range of drivers.  It generally should not be necessary except for people who want to generate a set of Foomatic data files  for
       distribution. For configuring single printers foomatic-datafile and especially foomatic-configure will automagically compute just what they
       need.

   Options
       -t type	 Output file type, one of ppd, cups, lprng, lpd, ppr, pdq, direct, oldcups, xml.  Note: "oldcups" are the  old-style  CUPS-O-Matic
		 PPDs (for XPP 1.0 and older, KDE 2.x).

       -f	 Force: Write into the destination directory even if it already exists.

       -j n	 n = number of work processes to run

       driver ...
		 only generate data files for these driver(s)

EXIT STATUS
       foomatic-compiledb returns 0 unless something unexpected happens.

AUTHORS
       Manfred	Wassmann <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de> and Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmx.net> for the foomatic project using output from the
       associated binary.

BUGS
       Existing files are always conserved instead of older files being overwritten. So deleting the destination directory (rm -rf dir) and  call-
       ing foomatic-compiledb without the -f option is recommended.

       Please send bug reports to foomatic-devel@linuxprinting.org.

Foomatic Project						    2001-05-07						     FOOMATIC-COMPILEDB(1)