I have a printer that is connected to a usb print server (USR5461). Unfortunately the printer doesn't work via the usb print server. The reason for this is the the print server doesn't fully support the ipp protocol. With a small change in ipp.c I can get my printer working. I have already done it on Fedora Core 2 and now I want to build a custom version for Slackware 12. What is the best strategy to do this? For example:

- remove the current cups version with removepkg and
- configure make and make install

or

- directly configure make and make install without the removal of the current version

or

- remove the current cups version with removepkg and
- create a tgz of the custom cups version
- install the new cups.tgz with installpkg

I'd do a variation of your last option:

- create a tgz of the custom cups version
- install the new cups.tgz with upgradepkg

Regards,
Bill