appimage-installer-bin

maintainer taotieren · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
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Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from Gitee (a Chinese code-hosting platform), which is the upstream project's own repository (deepin-opensource/appimage-installer). This is not a random personal host — it is the official upstream source for this Deepin project. However, the artifact is a prebuilt binary blob (not source-compiled), and Gitee attachment URLs are not a canonical release distribution channel with strong integrity guarantees. The sha256sum is present and pinned, which mitigates substitution risk significantly. The binary is extracted and installed directly to /opt/apps/ and symlinked into /usr/bin, meaning it will be executed on the user's system. The combination of a prebuilt binary from a non-primary distribution host (Gitee attachments rather than a signed release channel) with direct execution constitutes a genuine medium supply-chain concern, though the pinned checksum and the fact that this is the project's own upstream repository reduce the risk compared to a truly unofficial third-party host.

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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:27 source=("${_pkgname}_${pkgver}-beta_amd64.deb::https://gitee.com/deepin-opensource/appimage-installer/attach_files/774786/download/appimage-installer_2.0-beta_amd64.deb")
MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from Gitee (a Chinese code-hosting platform), which is the upstream project's own repository (deepin-opensource/appimage-installer). This is not a random personal host — it is the official upstream source for this Deepin project. However, the artifact is a prebuilt binary blob (not source-compiled), and Gitee attachment URLs are not a canonical release distribution channel with strong integrity guarantees. The sha256sum is present and pinned, which mitigates substitution risk significantly. The binary is extracted and installed directly to /opt/apps/ and symlinked into /usr/bin, meaning it will be executed on the user's system. The combination of a prebuilt binary from a non-primary distribution host (Gitee attachments rather than a signed release channel) with direct execution constitutes a genuine medium supply-chain concern, though the pinned checksum and the fact that this is the project's own upstream repository reduce the risk compared to a truly unofficial third-party host.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: taotieren <admin@taotieren.com>
2
3pkgname=appimage-installer-bin
4pkgver=2.0
5pkgrel=3
6pkgdesc="AppImage install tool."
7arch=('x86_64')
8url="https://gitee.com/deepin-opensource/appimage-installer"
9license=('GPL-3.0-only')
10provides=(${pkgname%-bin})
11conflicts=(${pkgname%-bin})
12#replaces=(${pkgname})
13depends=(
14 dtkcore
15 dtkwidget
16 dtkgui
17 gcc-libs
18 glibc
19 hicolor-icon-theme
20 qt5-base
21 qt5-svg
22 python)
23makedepends=()
24backup=()
25options=()
26# install=${pkgname}.install
27source=("${_pkgname}_${pkgver}-beta_amd64.deb::https://gitee.com/deepin-opensource/appimage-installer/attach_files/774786/download/appimage-installer_2.0-beta_amd64.deb")
28sha256sums=('155f4795c0489a662546884e1f91204622c90796165795bb83744f4152f0e0e7')
29
30package() {
31 tar xf ${srcdir}/data.tar.xz -C ${pkgdir}
32 install -dm0755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin" \
33 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications" \
34 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps"
35
36 ln -sf "/opt/apps/com.appimage-installer/files/appimage-installer" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/appimage-installer"
37 ln -sf "/opt/apps/com.appimage-installer/entries/applications/com.appimage-installer.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/com.appimage-installer.desktop"
38 ln -sf "/opt/apps/com.appimage-installer/entries/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/appimage-installer.svg" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/appimage-installer.svg"
39}
40

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