brother-mfc-j5330dw

maintainer surt91 · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
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Why flagged The package downloads official Brother driver RPMs from download.brother.com, which is the vendor's legitimate domain; despite the static analyzer flagging it as a non-standard host, this is a normal and expected source for proprietary drivers, and the checksums are provided and verifiable.

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 download.brother.com, which is the vendor's legitimate domain; despite the static analyzer flagging it as a non-standard host, this is a normal and expected source for proprietary drivers, and the checksums are provided and verifiable.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:17 source=("http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf103003/mfcj5330dwlpr-$pkgver-0.i386.rpm"

PKGBUILD

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1# Contributor: David Barri <japgolly@gmail.com>
2# Contributor: Valère Monseur <valere dot monseur at ymail dot com>
3# Maintainer: Hendrik Schawe <hendrik dot schawe at gmail dot com>
4
5# slightly modified version of https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brother-mfc-j5320dw/
6
7pkgname="brother-mfc-j5330dw"
8pkgver="1.0.1"
9pkgrel=4
10pkgdesc="LPR and CUPS driver for the Brother MFC-J5330DW"
11arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
12url="http://support.brother.com/g/b/producttop.aspx?c=gb&lang=en&prod=mfcj5330dw_us_eu_as"
13license=('custom:Brother commercial license')
14depends=('cups' 'ghostscript' 'poppler' 'a2ps' 'psutils')
15depends_x86_64=('lib32-glibc' 'lib32-gcc-libs')
16install="$pkgname.install"
17source=("http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf103003/mfcj5330dwlpr-$pkgver-0.i386.rpm"
18 "http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf103027/mfcj5330dwcupswrapper-$pkgver-0.i386.rpm"
19 'cupswrapper-license.txt'
20 'lpr-license.txt'
21 'brother_lpdwrapper_mfcj5330dw.patch')
22md5sums=(1d84cf8b3db7d2598ed0a0e15d44b947
23 db6ce4717c3110134a20bbfb251ee9c5
24 310f8424517f3df127d39393ceaebb6f
25 bf894a1a51baf6055a6c58ecf43c9782
26 3903b9b3f9e225cb481b1468f49e1268)
27
28prepare() {
29 # do not install in /usr/local
30 if [ -d "${srcdir}"/usr/local/Brother ]; then
31 install -d "${srcdir}"/usr/share
32 mv "${srcdir}"/usr/local/Brother/ "${srcdir}"/usr/share/Brother
33 rm -rf "${srcdir}"/usr/local
34 sed -i 's|/usr/local/Brother|/usr/share/Brother|g' `grep -lr '/usr/local/Brother' ./`
35 fi
36
37 # setup cups directories
38 install -d "${srcdir}"/usr/share/cups/model
39 install -d "${srcdir}"/usr/lib/cups/filter
40
41 # patch an error (?) in the perl script from brother
42 patch -p1 "${srcdir}"/opt/brother/Printers/mfcj5330dw/cupswrapper/brother_lpdwrapper_mfcj5330dw < brother_lpdwrapper_mfcj5330dw.patch
43
44 # go to the cupswrapper directory and find the source file from which to generate a ppd and wrapperfile
45 cd `find . -type d -name 'cupswrapper'`
46
47 if [ -f cupswrapper* ]; then
48 _wrapper_source=`ls cupswrapper*`
49
50 sed -i '/^\/etc\/init.d\/cups/d' $_wrapper_source
51 sed -i '/^sleep/d' $_wrapper_source
52 sed -i '/^lpadmin/d' $_wrapper_source
53 sed -i 's|/usr|$srcdir/usr|g' $_wrapper_source
54 sed -i 's|/opt|$srcdir/opt|g' $_wrapper_source
55 sed -i 's|/model/Brother|/model|g' $_wrapper_source
56 sed -i 's|lpinfo|echo|g' $_wrapper_source
57
58 export srcdir="${srcdir}"
59 ./$_wrapper_source
60
61 sed -i 's|$srcdir||' "${srcdir}"/usr/lib/cups/filter/*lpdwrapper*
62 sed -i "s|$srcdir||" "${srcdir}"/usr/lib/cups/filter/*lpdwrapper*
63
64 rm $_wrapper_source
65 fi
66
67 # /etc/printcap is managed by cups
68 rm `find "${srcdir}" -type f -name 'setupPrintcap*'`
69
70 # patch filter for PDF printing to avoid error:
71 # ERROR: typecheck
72 # OFFENDING COMMAND: resourcestatus
73 sed -i 's|pdf2ps|pdftocairo -q -ps|g' "${srcdir}"/opt/brother/Printers/mfcj5330dw/lpd/filter_mfcj5330dw
74}
75
76package() {
77 cp -R "${srcdir}"/usr "${pkgdir}"
78 cp -R "${srcdir}"/opt "${pkgdir}"
79
80 install -Dm644 cupswrapper-license.txt "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/licenses/"${pkgname}"/cupswrapper-licence.txt
81 install -Dm644 lpr-license.txt "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/licenses/"${pkgname}"/lpr-licence.txt
82}
83

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