Re: [gentoo-user] Brother HL-L6200DW

[tastytea]

On 2022-04-06 19:05-0600 thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:

> On 4/6/22 16:43, P Levine wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 3:40 PM <thelma@×××××××××××.com
> > <mailto:thelma@×××××××××××.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Does anybody have this printer?
> >
> >     Is there a driver in overlay to setup this printer?
> >
> >     Installing those drivers from rpm and cupswrapper is tiring.
> >
> > I have a different brother printer but I used an ebuild from
> > brother-overlay
> > <https://github.com/stefan-langenmaier/brother-overlay> as a
> > template. The closest to your printer would likely be
> > brother-hll8350cdw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild
> > <https://github.com/stefan-langenmaier/brother-overlay/blob/master/net-print/brother-hll8350cdw-bin/brother-hll8350cdw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild>.
> > Rename to brother-hl6200dw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild. Change the parts of
> > SRC_URI to match the download URI used to download the driver(s)
> > from the Brother website. Change instances of "hll8350cdw" to
> > "hll6200dw".
>
> This is a good idea. I've the files (modified them):
> brother-hl6200dw-bin-1.1.2-r1.ebuild and metadata.xml
>
> My only question is which directory to put them in? I think:
> /usr/local/portage/(something)

That's described in
<https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Creating_an_ebuild_repository>. In short:
eselect repository create <repository_name>