Thanks to both of you for looking into this for me. It seems Epson use an automated download server which changes the location with each new release.
I did get a copy of the port that was uploaded in 2014 but it stops in the early stages (something about the devel/gettext) module missing from my system. I can see gettext is available as a port but I already have the package version installed on the system. I'm guessing the libraries that version depends on would have changed in a new release. I do have some software development experience but don't know enough about the ports system and OpenBSD to adjust the port for my system. Regards Ed Gray On Sat, 21 Sep 2019, 7:50 p.m. Antoine Jacoutot, <ajacou...@bsdfrog.org> wrote: > Thanks Stuart. I will have a look. > > > — > Antoine > > > On 21 Sep 2019, at 19:10, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > > > On 2019/09/20 17:41, Ed Gray wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm a user of OpenBSD on a couple of my machines and I'd like to use > >> my Epson Expression Home XP 342 printer directly with them. The > >> printer is wireless and so doesn't need a USB driver. > >> > >> I found this thread[1] on the list from a long time ago (January 2014) > >> where someone helped Maurice Mcarthy get his Epson Stylus SX205 > >> working by providing a port called print/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr. > >> > >> It seems to be an OpenBSD version of the FreeBSD > >> epson-inkjet-printer-escpr port[2] but I can't find any reference to > >> this port in the OpenBSD ports CVS repository so I wonder was it > >> something somebody created privately or was it removed for a reason? > >> > >> My printer is supported by version 1.6.9 of the Epson ESC/P-R driver > >> onwards and as far as I can tell is not supported by Gutenprint yet. > >> > >> I would be happy to compile the driver from source myself but I was > >> unable to do this and I would rather use a port to make it easy to > >> install and remove. > >> > >> Given some directions I might also be able to use the FreeBSD port if > >> it's a simple enough process to convert it. > >> > >> Please could you tell me if this port is still available for recent > >> versions of OpenBSD? If not perhaps the older version might be updated > >> for OpenBSD 6.4 and recent printers? > >> > >> Regards > >> Ed Gray (e.mask....@gmail.com) OpenBSD 6.4 user > >> > >> Links: > >> 1: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=139092148214440&w=2 > >> 2: https://www.freshports.org/print/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr/ > >> > > > > The port was only in attachments to the emails in that thread, it was > > never committed. I've attached an updated version for -current, I don't > > have time to backport it for 6.4 though. > > > > <epson-inkjet-printer-escpr.tgz> > >
