On 2022-04-06 19:05-0600 the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 4/6/22 16:43, P Levine wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 3:40 PM <the...@sys-concept.com > > <mailto:the...@sys-concept.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>
