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Hi ettavolt. I'm not sure if that was directed towards me but "/opt/brother" does not exist. I had installed brscan4 using yay and I'm not sure if another tool is advised instead.

EDIT: I had this error: brscan4: /usr/lib/sane/libsane-brother4.so exists in filesystem brscan4: /usr/lib/sane/libsane-brother4.so.1 exists in filesystem brscan4: /usr/lib/sane/libsane-brother4.so.1.0.7 exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

so I deleted these three files and were able to install brsane4 just fine and run brsaneconfig4. Thanks!

~ % /opt/brother/scanner/brscan4/brsaneconfig4 --help
USAGE: brsaneconfig4 [-OPTION]   OPTION:
       -a name=FRIENDLY-NAME model=MODEL-NAME ip=xx.xx.xx.xx    
       -a name=FRIENDLY-NAME model=MODEL-NAME nodename=BRN_xxxxx 
                   : Add network scanner
       -r FRIENDLY-NAME [FRIENDLY-NAME ...]
                   : Remove network scanner
       -q          : Query supported models and available network scanners
       -d          : Diagnosis
       -p          : Ping (for network scanners)  
       -s:[LABEL]  : Save current configuration
       -l:[LABEL]  : Load saved configuration

I noticed that after installing this package that I don't get a binary starting with "brs", namely brsaneconfig4. I was wondering what package I'll need to install for that.

updated to 0.4.6_1

@marcin: changed that back, thanks. Learned: never rely on anything :(

Was getting this error:

curl: (51) SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target host name 'www.brother.com' ==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://www.brother.com/agreement/English_sane/agree.html

I downloaded the brscan4:

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/brscan4.git

and then manually edited PKGBUILD to have http instead of https for two brother links there.

And then manually build and install the packakage

makepkg -si

@lordbalmung: Done. Thank you for the hint. Did not change the pkgver though because it does not change the package itself.

Can you please modify the source to https instead of http? brother seems to release the rpm in https as well.

@Harey: it still blocks executing binary files. To be clear: noexec flag isn't defense against malicious PKGBUILD. It's a coincidence that it can break building in circumstances as described below. What I'm advocating here is to prevent that accidental breakage.

Just out of curiosity: what is the sense in this if a malicious PKGBUILD can circumvent it with a - agreed - trivial change?