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Hey, I've adopted this package and applied some of the suggestions:

• Add missing dependencies, notably libusb-compat and sane (cred @ZhandHua).
• Depend on exact version of hplip (cred @jsn42).

In addition, the PGP-signature of the artifact is now checked, which means you need to fetch upstream's key:

gpg --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 4ABA2F66DBD5A95894910E0673D770CDA59047B9

Unfortunately, I have no HP printer at home so my testing ability is limited to running hp-diagnose_plugin. If someone has better opportunity to test and is interested in maintaining, let me know and I'll handover the package or add you as a co-maintainer. Cheers!

That check should not test if the package is built as root. It checks if the config file is writeable, because the plugin installer tries to overwrite that file. If you remove that check and build the package as root (or any user that has the rights to overwrite the config), you will end up with a PKGBUILD that has side effects on the build system. The real solution is probably what I wrote in an earlier comment: > The new hplip 3.12.10 changed the code used to install the > plugin, so it would probably be easier to just copy the files directly, without > relying on hplips installation routines. I noticed that this package needs to > set some flags in hplips state configuration file (in postinst). See the plugin installation stuff in hplip for details.

Agreed. That test is kind of silly. By default makepkg refuses to run as root, and there's a flag to override it. Not to mention that's an odd way of checking.

I think following lines should be removed such that the package can be built as root. 26 if [ -w /etc/hp/hplip.conf ]; then 27 echo 'You should not make this package as root!!111!1' 28 return 1 29 fi When I tried to build it as user in root group, I got "OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/hp/'" error as permission for /var/lib is 755.

So, I just had a hard time getting my firmware to load with the HP Laserjet 1020. I rewrote the rule for it: -----------------------8<---------------------- SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="03f0", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2b17", \ RUN+="/usr/bin/systemd-cat -t hp-firmware -p5 /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/hp-firmware -n -y3 -s$env{BUSNUM}:$env{DEVNUM}" ----------------------->8---------------------- If anyone has problems they might want to try this rule. I wonder if we can unify all of them. Also, does anyone know why these rules have a delay of 3 seconds (-y3)?

@jamesbond007: yes, using zilti's patch, updating it to latest ver., it works fine: pkgver=3.12.10a depends=('hplip=3.12.10.a-3') md5sums=('7e9065367c347c76284be168143a0588')

Can anyone confirm that hplip-plugin 3.12.10a-1 works?

Thanks pyropeter. I adopted this package. Eventually i will probaly switch to foo2zjs too.

I'm disowning this now. I hope that the new maintainer will handle this PKGBUILD with care. This is my first disowned package, so I might be a bit sentimental about it. *Sniff* farewell, package! @said: It's foo2zjs: http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/

ksniffer, I was able to install it (remove hplip-plugin, update hplip then reinstall hplip-plugin) with the information given by zilti. try to sudo mkdir /var/lib/hp this should solve your problem.

Zilti I have got these errors using you changes: [ksniffer@arch-laptop hplip-plugin]$ makepkg -s ==> Making package: hplip-plugin 3.12.10a-1 (Sat Oct 13 00:45:30 CEST 2012) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving Sources... -> Downloading hplip-3.12.10a-plugin.run... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 1765k 100 1765k 0 0 433k 0 0:00:04 0:00:04 --:--:-- 457k ==> Validating source files with md5sums... hplip-3.12.10a-plugin.run ... Passed ==> Extracting Sources... ==> Entering fakeroot environment... ==> Starting package()... ./ ./lj-x86_64.so ./fax_marvell-x86_64.so ./86-hpmud-sysfs_hp_laserjet_p1008.rules ./86-hpmud-hp_laserjet_p1007.rules ./bb_soapht-x86_32.so ./86-hpmud-sysfs_hp_laserjet_1005_series.rules ./hp_laserjet_1005_series.fw.gz ./86-hpmud-hp_laserjet_p1008.rules ./86-hpmud-hp_laserjet_professional_p1102w.rules ./hp_laserjet_professional_p1566.fw.gz ./bb_soap-x86_64.so ./86-hpmud-sysfs_hp_laserjet_1000.rules ./86-hpmud-hp_laserjet_p1505.rules ./hp_laserjet_p1007.fw.gz ./86-hpmud-sysfs_hp_laserjet_p1006.rules ./86-hpmud-sysfs_hp_laserjet_1020.rules ./86-hpmud-hp_laserjet_p1006.rules ./plugin.spec ./86-hpmud-hp_laserjet_1018.rules ./hp_laserjet_1000.fw.gz ./hp_laserjet_professional_p1102.fw.gz ./86-hpmud-sysfs_hp_laserjet_p1505.rules ./license.txt ./86-hpmud-sysfs_hp_laserjet_professional_p1102w.rules ./hp_laserjet_1020.fw.gz ./86-hpmud-sysfs_hp_laserjet_professional_p1566.rules ./bb_marvell-x86_64.so ./86-hpmud-hp_laserjet_p1005.rules ./hplip-plugin-install ./hp_laserjet_p1005.fw.gz ./86-hpmud-sysfs_hp_laserjet_professional_p1102.rules ./86-hpmud-hp_laserjet_professional_p1566.rules ./hp_laserjet_p1006.fw.gz ./86-hpmud-sysfs_hp_laserjet_p1007.rules ./lj-x86_32.so ./plugin_install.py ./86-hpmud-sysfs_hp_laserjet_p1005.rules ./bb_soapht-x86_64.so ./bb_soap-x86_32.so ./hp_laserjet_p1505.fw.gz ./bb_marvell-x86_32.so ./86-hpmud-hp_laserjet_professional_p1102.rules ./86-hpmud-hp_laserjet_1020.rules ./hp_laserjet_p1009.fw.gz ./86-hpmud-sysfs_hp_laserjet_1018.rules ./version.txt ./86-hpmud-hp_laserjet_1005_series.rules ./86-hpmud-hp_laserjet_1000.rules ./fax_marvell-x86_32.so ./hp_laserjet_p1008.fw.gz ./hp_laserjet_1018.fw.gz ./hp_laserjet_professional_p1102w.fw.gz Traceback (most recent call last): File "plugin_install.py", line 75, in <module> from base.g import * File "/usr/share/hplip/base/g.py", line 210, in <module> sys_state = State() File "/usr/share/hplip/base/g.py", line 153, in __init__ os.makedirs('/var/lib/hp/') File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/hp/' ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package(). Aborting...