FOOMATIC-KITLOAD(8)

💖 FOOMATIC-KITLOAD 💖

okay so this is FOOMATIC-KITLOAD(8), a System Manager's Manual page, and bestie it's literally just about dropping a data kit into your foomatic database. slay.

✨ NAME ✨

foomatic-kitload — installs a data kit into the foomatic database. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

foomatic-kitload [ -k kit-dir] [ -d dest-dir]...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so foomatic-kitload installs a foomatic data kit into the local data library. it takes a -k dirname option, where dirname is the toplevel directory of a foomatic driver "kit". and a "kit"?? a kit is a selection of XML source files arranged exactly as in the source/section of the master database — like, opt/driver/printer/ subdirs, that exact energy. no cap.

Gimp-Print's foomatic-generator produces exactly such a kit. periodt 💅

now, foomatic-kitload is moderately paranoid about kits — not full conspiracy-theory paranoid, just like, a healthy amount of suspicious 👀. the kit must contain at least one of printer, driver or opt; the kit must contain only files ending in .xml; the kit cannot be the local library itself, etc. but it does not inspect the contents of the kit files in any way. it's trusting like that, it's giving main character energy fr fr.

🎀 Options 🎀

• -k dirname — dirname is the toplevel directory of a foomatic driver "kit". that's the source of truth right there 💖
• -d destdir — destdir is a prefix to prepend to the install path. this will not normally be required, but it's useful if you're installing into a temporary staging area prior to installing in the final destination. lowkey iconic for when you wanna rehearse before the real thing 🌈

⭐ EXIT STATUS ⭐

foomatic-kitload returns 0 on success, 255 or something else when an error occurs. so like, 0 = we ate, anything else = we did not eat 😭

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Manfred Wassmann <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de> for the foomatic project using output from the associated binary. thank you for your service legend 🫶

💀 BUGS 💀

Please post bug reports on

http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-foomatic

not me asking you to actually use the link, but like, do use the link 🐛✨

and that's the whole page bestie, courtesy of the Foomatic Project, dated 2001-05-07, filed under FOOMATIC-KITLOAD(8) — go install a kit and slay 💅🌸