diff --git a/printing/cups/cups.conf b/printing/cups/cups.conf
index 08059a068..8e1e2a0f9 100644
--- a/printing/cups/cups.conf
+++ b/printing/cups/cups.conf
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ cups_pm(){
 	mkdir -p $root/var/spool/cups/tmp
 	chown daemon:daemon $root/var/spool/cups/tmp
 
-	mkdir -p $datadir/cups/drivers
+	mkdir -p $root$datadir/cups/drivers
 }
 
 # shared file transformation
@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ var_append INSTALL_WRAPPER_FILTER '|' \
 
 var_append confopt " " "--with-logdir=/var/cups/log"
 var_append makeopt " " "INITDIR= INITDDIR="
+
 makeinstopt="$makeopt install"
+var_append makeinstopt ' ' "BUILDROOT=$root"
 
 hook_add postmake 5 cups_pm
 
diff --git a/printing/cups/cups.desc b/printing/cups/cups.desc
index 829a8287f..70e583a2f 100644
--- a/printing/cups/cups.desc
+++ b/printing/cups/cups.desc
@@ -45,6 +45,6 @@
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
 [V] 1.3.6
-[P] X -----5---9 122.900
+[P] X -?---5---9 122.900
 
 [D] 1002496048 cups-1.3.6-source.tar.bz2 http://ftp.easysw.com/pub/cups/1.3.6/