beammp-launcher4linux

LOW

maintainer Chef 0 votes scanned 2026-10-17 00:21:55.226236

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt binary and its checksum from the maintainer's GitHub release, which is a common but less trustworthy practice than building from source; however, it is not actively malicious, and the risk is limited to the binary's integrity.

Triggered rules

Low Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

Low AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 90%): The package downloads a prebuilt binary and its checksum from the maintainer's GitHub release, which is a common but less trustworthy practice than building from source; however, it is not actively malicious, and the risk is limited to the binary's integrity.

PKGBUILD

      1# Maintainer: SerShef <SerShef@users.noreply.github.com>
    
      2pkgname=beammp-launcher4linux
    
      3pkgver=2.8.1
    
      4pkgrel=2
    
      5pkgdesc='BeamMP Launcher for Linux, (GamePath config/CLI switch override for non-Steam installs), prebuilt vcpkg included (no dependency).'
    
      6arch=(x86_64)
    
      7url='https://github.com/SerShef/BeamMP-Launcher4Linux'
    
      8# Original upstream project also at: https://github.com/BeamMP/BeamMP-Launcher
    
      9license=(AGPL-3.0-or-later)
    
      10depends=(glibc gcc-libs)
    
      11optdepends=('steam: launch BeamNG.drive through Steam')
    
      12provides=(beammp beammp-launcher)
    
      13conflicts=(beammp beammp-launcher beammp-launcher4linux-git beammp-launcher-git)
    
      14
    
      15_srcbase="https://github.com/SerShef/BeamMP-Launcher4Linux/releases/download/v${pkgver}"
    
      16source=("${_srcbase}/BeamMP-Launcher"
    
      17        "${_srcbase}/BeamMP-Launcher.sha256")
    
      18sha256sums=(
    
      19  '3f1603a7d698bbca3f726ac52de2749c847f82c200c0f87493ad60fbbb872d2e'
    
      20  '34ea2effe56baf9e5e242001fe0e5ffbc852b1ed566b08c12b0f0e17df99e1a4'
    
      21)
    
      22
    
      23package() {
    
      24  cd "$srcdir"
    
      25  install -Dm755 BeamMP-Launcher "$pkgdir/usr/lib/beammp/BeamMP-Launcher"
    
      26  install -Dm755 "$srcdir/beammp.sh" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/beammp"
    
      27  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/beammp.desktop" "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/beammp.desktop"
    
      28}
    
      29

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-10-16 07:15
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-10-17 00:21
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 # Maintainer: SerShef <SerShef@users.noreply.github.com>
 pkgname=beammp-launcher4linux
 pkgver=2.8.1
-pkgrel=1
-pkgdesc='BeamMP Launcher for Linux, prebuilt (GamePath config/CLI override for non-Steam installs)'
+pkgrel=2
+pkgdesc='BeamMP Launcher for Linux, (GamePath config/CLI switch override for non-Steam installs), prebuilt vcpkg included (no dependency).'
 arch=(x86_64)
 url='https://github.com/SerShef/BeamMP-Launcher4Linux'
+# Original upstream project also at: https://github.com/BeamMP/BeamMP-Launcher
 license=(AGPL-3.0-or-later)
 depends=(glibc gcc-libs)
 optdepends=('steam: launch BeamNG.drive through Steam')

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Low	2
2026-10-16 09:15:55	Low	2
2026-10-16 07:15:06	Low	2