chirp-next-bin

LOW
maintainer GaryScottMartin 0 votes scanned 2026-08-20 03:10:35.909995
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The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from a GitHub release by a known maintainer; while the host is not a primary upstream, it is a legitimate mirror with verifiable checksums, and AppImages are common in AUR for such tools, posing low risk.

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An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from a GitHub release by a known maintainer; while the host is not a primary upstream, it is a legitimate mirror with verifiable checksums, and AppImages are common in AUR for such tools, posing low risk.

PKGBUILD

1# Maintainer: Gary S Martin (K6AE) <gsm--3782cielo+chirp[at]martin-fam[dot]net>
2
3pkgname=chirp-next-bin
4pkgver=20260814
5pkgrel=1
6epoch=1
7pkgdesc="GUI tool for programming ham radios (AppImage binary)"
8arch=('x86_64')
9url="https://chirpmyradio.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home"
10license=('GPL-3.0-or-later')
11
12depends=('fuse2')
13optdepends=('hamradio-menus: XDG menus for ham radio software')
14
15provides=('chirp')
16conflicts=('chirp' 'chirp-daily' 'chirp-next')
17
18options=('!strip' '!debug')
19
20_appimage="Chirp-next-${pkgver}-${CARCH}.AppImage"
21
22noextract=("${_appimage}")
23
24source=(
25 "${_appimage}::https://github.com/GaryScottMartin/chirp-next-mirror/releases/download/${pkgver}/${_appimage}"
26 'chirp.desktop'
27 'chirp.png'
28)
29
30sha256sums=('1a59820fccd77fd046c81c5c4af6439e00464c1d66d4cfd62014af5e7e597317'
31 'b70bd2d91d0277d3820010ee9d2dfe7f7b6e6d92c640cc3b51a6ec2e18be6aae'
32 'aecc40abb16119e386c922ec48ee7d8bc6949ccb207ac03a7d0f620f0b9120ac')
33
34package() {
35 install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/${_appimage}" \
36 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/chirp"
37
38 install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/chirp.desktop" \
39 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/chirp.desktop"
40
41 install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/chirp.png" \
42 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/chirp.png"
43}
44

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