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Adapting Package for Brother MFC-1810 -- udev rules for CUPS and SANE?

I looked at several packages and found my PKGBUILD below to be working for printing.

After installing brscan4 from the AUR for scanning, the printer stopped working, though. (lpinfo -v didn't show the printer anymore. scanimage -L showed the scanner, but Simple Scan didn't work iirc.)

At the moment both printing and scanning do work as user, but I am not sure why as I changed several things:

Added me as user to groups "lp" and "scanner".
Added /etc/udev/rules.d/99-brother-printer.rules as per Conflict_with_SANE:

ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ATTR{idProduct}=="02d1", MODE="0664", GROUP="lp", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

Removed /etc/udev/rules.d/brscan4.rules which basically contained:

ATTRS{idVendor}=="04f9", ATTR{idProduct}=="02d1", MODE="0664", GROUP="scanner", ENV{libsane_matched}="yes"

PKGBUILD:

pkgname=brother-mfc1810
pkgver=3.0.1_1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Brother cups and lpr driver for MFC-1810"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/index.html" 
license=('custom:Brother' 'GPL')
depends=('cups')
depends_x86_64=('lib32-glibc')
optdepends=('brscan4: scanner support')

source=(
	http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfc1810lpr-3.0.1-1.i386.rpm
	http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfc1810cupswrapper-3.0.1-1.i386.rpm
)

md5sums=(
	'bdf1d648ba91d31b1a3f79412eb202f3'
	'0a9213315655e75b548da87256cfa378'
)

package() {
	cp -rv ${srcdir}/opt ${pkgdir}/
	cp -rv ${srcdir}/var ${pkgdir}/

	mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/share/cups/model
	mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/cups/filter

	ln -sv /opt/brother/Printers/MFC1810/cupswrapper/brother-MFC1810-cups-en.ppd ${pkgdir}/usr/share/cups/model
	ln -sv /opt/brother/Printers/MFC1810/cupswrapper/brother_lpdwrapper_MFC1810 ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/cups/filter
}

Edited to add:

Depending on the udev-rule in place, the owner of the according USB device in /dev/bus/usb/*/* becomes "root scanner" or "root lp". Do I need a symlink in the udev-rule to have both?

Last edited by post (2016-07-16 08:45:37)