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Bug 355555

Summary: ebuilds for Brother's MFC-7440N drivers
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Tobias Leupold <tl>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Default Assignee for New Packages <maintainer-wanted>
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE    
Severity: enhancement CC: christian, christopher.schwaab, firedt, flyser42, printing
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: hardware driver
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 399875    
Bug Blocks: 399013    
Attachments: ebuild for brmfc7440nlpr
ebuild for cupswrapperMFC7440N
ebuild for cupswrapperMFC7440N

Description Tobias Leupold 2011-02-19 14:21:14 UTC
Here are two ebuilds I wrote to be able to install the drivers for the Brother MFC-7440N printer/scanner/fax provided by Brother using portage. Perhaps not perfectly clean but they work ;-)

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Tobias Leupold 2011-02-19 14:22:00 UTC
Created attachment 263019 [details]
ebuild for brmfc7440nlpr
Comment 2 Tobias Leupold 2011-02-19 14:22:23 UTC
Created attachment 263021 [details]
ebuild for cupswrapperMFC7440N
Comment 3 Tobias Leupold 2011-03-19 10:26:42 UTC
Created attachment 266457 [details]
ebuild for cupswrapperMFC7440N

Updated ebuild with the correct dependencies added. The script needs app-text/a2ps and also Brother's LPR driver brmfc7440nlpr (supposing it's added as net-print/brmfc7440nlpr).
Comment 5 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2012-01-15 17:53:38 UTC
*** Bug 248923 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2012-01-15 17:55:51 UTC
*** Bug 208029 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-01-25 14:48:15 UTC
*** Bug 399875 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2012-04-08 14:04:04 UTC
Are you interested in maintaning this driver directly yourself in the new 
printer-drivers overlay [1]?

If yes, just send me via personal e-mail at dilfridge@gentoo.org the
following data, so we can give you git push access to the overlay:
* the user name that you'd like to have
* your public ssh key [2], so we can give you git push access to the overlay
* your e-mail address
* and your full name
If you have a gnupg key, you should sign that e-mail [3].

Just a few rules:
* Initially, the ebuilds should work for you, and not break
  anything else.
* You enter yourself as maintainer in metadata.xml (together with
  the printing herd), and are then automatically cc'ed in bug reports 
  on bugzilla.
* We will guide you towards improving the ebuilds over the next 
  months so they follow the rules and qa guidelines of the Gentoo 
  main portage tree. In particular this means also using a recent
  EAPI (3 or perferably 4), and fixing repoman warnings [4].
  Don't worry, we'll help you with that.
* I hope this is never going to happen, but... ebuilds that "work but 
  go against the guidelines" and do not see any improvement will be 
  removed again one year after initial addition.

There are many ways to get help.
* You can directly ask me by personal e-mail (my time is limited, 
  but I'll try), 
* you can ask on freenode, channel #gentoo-dev-help,
* you can read the documentation (ebuild howto [5], devmanual [6]), 
* ...

[1] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/printer-drivers.git;a=summary
[2] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/openssh-key-management-p1.xml
[3] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gnupg-user.xml
[4] http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/man/repoman.1.html
[5] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2
[6] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/
Comment 9 Tobias Leupold 2012-04-22 21:20:45 UTC
Basically, I would of course maintain this ebuild, but as the ebuild posted in Bug #399875 claims to support all Brother drivers, this would make my ebuild redundant, wouldn't it? Probably, this bug should be a duplicate of #399875 and not vice versa?
Comment 10 Tobias Leupold 2017-11-04 18:48:22 UTC
I think this is definitely superseded by the Brother overlay and can thus be closed for sure.