brother-mfc-9970cdw

maintainer abdulhakeem · 4 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads official Brother driver RPMs from brother.com, a legitimate vendor domain, for installation; despite the static analyzer flagging the host as non-standard, the source is trustworthy and the build process is transparent, with only minor local path adjustments and removal of conflicting commands.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads official Brother driver RPMs from brother.com, a legitimate vendor domain, for installation; despite the static analyzer flagging the host as non-standard, the source is trustworthy and the build process is transparent, with only minor local path adjustments and removal of conflicting commands.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

MEDIUM source=() URL on a non-standard host source_untrusted_domain

One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).

PKGBUILD:12 "http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfc9970cdwlpr-$pkgver-$pkgrel.i386.rpm"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: libernux <dutchman55@gmx.com>
    
      2pkgname="brother-mfc-9970cdw"
    
      3pkgver="1.1.1"
    
      4pkgrel=5
    
      5pkgdesc="LPR and CUPS driver for the Brother MFC-9970CDW"
    
      6url="http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/"
    
      7arch=("i686" "x86_64")
    
      8license=('custom:brother commercial license')
    
      9depends=("cups")
    
      10install="$pkgname.install"
    
      11source=(
    
      12	"http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfc9970cdwlpr-$pkgver-$pkgrel.i386.rpm"
    
      13	"http://www.brother.com/pub/bsc/linux/dlf/mfc9970cdwcupswrapper-$pkgver-$pkgrel.i386.rpm"
    
      14	'cupswrapper-license.txt'
    
      15	'lpr-license.txt'
    
      16)
    
      17md5sums=(
    
      18	'5ccc0299d0d5f2a25bf4aaa77829c5d3'
    
      19	'a349dba7a65b5cd8fbf5ec7fc01a5fe7'
    
      20	'97ad0cffd216059e9d1d3121899d8646'
    
      21	'5e87a3dc0f3e3438c088eda0f3565f0d'
    
      22)
    
      23if test "$CARCH" == x86_64; then
    
      24  depends+=('lib32-glibc')
    
      25fi
    
      26prepare() {
    
      27#  do not install in '/usr/local'
    
      28	if [ -d $srcdir/usr/local/Brother ]; then
    
      29		install -d $srcdir/usr/share
    
      30		mv $srcdir/usr/local/Brother/ $srcdir/usr/share/brother
    
      31		rm -rf $srcdir/usr/local
    
      32	        sed -i 's|/usr/local/Brother|/usr/share/brother|g' `grep -lr '/usr/local/Brother' ./`
    
      33        fi
    
      34# setup cups-directories
    
      35	install -d $srcdir/usr/share/cups/model
    
      36	install -d $srcdir/usr/lib/cups/filter
    
      37#  go to the cupswrapper directory and find the source file from wich to generate a ppd- and wrapper-file
    
      38	cd `find . -type d -name 'cupswrapper'`
    
      39	if [ -f cupswrapper* ]; then
    
      40		_wrapper_source=`ls cupswrapper*`
    
      41		sed -i '/^\/etc\/init.d\/cups/d' $_wrapper_source
    
      42		sed -i '/^sleep/d' $_wrapper_source
    
      43		sed -i '/^lpadmin/d' $_wrapper_source
    
      44		sed -i 's|/usr|$srcdir/usr|g' $_wrapper_source
    
      45		sed -i 's|/opt|$srcdir/opt|g' $_wrapper_source
    
      46		sed -i 's|/model/Brother|/model|g' $_wrapper_source
    
      47		sed -i 's|lpinfo|echo|g' $_wrapper_source
    
      48		export srcdir=$srcdir
    
      49		./$_wrapper_source
    
      50		sed -i 's|$srcdir||' $srcdir/usr/lib/cups/filter/*lpdwrapper*
    
      51		sed -i "s|$srcdir||" $srcdir/usr/lib/cups/filter/*lpdwrapper*
    
      52		rm $_wrapper_source
    
      53	fi
    
      54#  /etc/printcap is managed by cups
    
      55	rm `find $srcdir -type f -name 'setupPrintcap*'`
    
      56}
    
      57package() {
    
      58	cp -R $srcdir/usr $pkgdir
    
      59	if [ -d $srcdir/opt ]; then cp -R $srcdir/opt $pkgdir; fi
    
      60	install -m 644 -D cupswrapper-license.txt $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/cupswrapper-licence.txt
    
      61	install -m 644 -D lpr-license.txt $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/lpr-licence.txt
    
      62}

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