arena-chess-gui

maintainer PhCl · 15 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a source tarball from the project's official domain, which is not on the whitelist but is plausibly legitimate; it builds and installs the project's own code, with no evidence of malicious or unverifiable executable content.

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 a source tarball from the project's official domain, which is not on the whitelist but is plausibly legitimate; it builds and installs the project's own code, with no evidence of malicious or unverifiable executable content.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:21 source=(http://www.playwitharena.de/downloads/arenalinux_64bit_${_pkgver}.tar.gz)

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Philipp Claßen <philipp.classen@posteo.de>
    
      2#
    
      3# A problem with Arena is that it requires write access to the directory,
    
      4# in which it was installed. Currently, I see no way to avoid it.
    
      5#
    
      6# It will write its settings to ~/.config/Arena_x86_64_linux, which is OK,
    
      7# but it will also create files in /opt/arena, where it is installed.
    
      8#
    
      9pkgname=arena-chess-gui
    
      10pkgver=3.10
    
      11_pkgver=3.10beta
    
      12pkgrel=1
    
      13pkgdesc="A free GUI for chess"
    
      14arch=('x86_64')
    
      15url="http://www.playwitharena.de/"
    
      16license=('custom')
    
      17install='arena.install'
    
      18
    
      19depends=(gtk2 xdg-utils)
    
      20makedepends=()
    
      21source=(http://www.playwitharena.de/downloads/arenalinux_64bit_${_pkgver}.tar.gz)
    
      22sha256sums=('0db8d9f7febc8a396f5a9e777a6d4fd477740b5a7437ba1e896b7d4a9e4eebdf')
    
      23
    
      24package() {
    
      25  mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/opt/arena
    
      26  cp -R ${srcdir}/* ${pkgdir}/opt/arena
    
      27  rm ${pkgdir}/opt/arena/arenalinux_64bit_${_pkgver}.tar.gz
    
      28  chmod -R a+rw ${pkgdir}/opt/arena
    
      29
    
      30  mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/bin
    
      31  printf "#!/bin/sh\ncd /opt/arena\n./Arena_x86_64_linux \$@" > ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/arena
    
      32  chmod 755 ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/arena
    
      33
    
      34  mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}
    
      35  printf "See http://www.playwitharena.com/?Legal_Stuff\n" > "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      36
    
      37  # This is propably the wrong way to create the Desktop file, but
    
      38  # should be better than nothing, for now.
    
      39  #
    
      40  # TODO: Arena creates this file
    
      41  # /opt/arena/Integration/Desktop/userapp-Arena_linux.desktop.template
    
      42  # I assume using that template is the correct way to create the Desktop file.
    
      43  mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications
    
      44  printf "[Desktop Entry]
    
      45Version=1.0
    
      46Name=Arena
    
      47Comment=A free GUI for chess.
    
      48Exec=/usr/bin/arena
    
      49Icon=/opt/arena/Arena.bmp
    
      50Categories=Game;BoardGame;
    
      51Type=Application
    
      52Terminal=false
    
      53StartupNotify=false
    
      54" > ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop
    
      55  chmod 644 ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop
    
      56}
    
      57

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2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
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2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
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2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
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2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2