cider

maintainer jasongodev · 30 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
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Why flagged The pnpm install is part of building the project from its own source (git checkout), which is a normal AUR practice; the added dev dependency (electron-builder@26.0.0) pins a known version to avoid a build issue and is not an undeclared external package in a malicious sense.

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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 pnpm install is part of building the project from its own source (git checkout), which is a normal AUR practice; the added dev dependency (electron-builder@26.0.0) pins a known version to avoid a build issue and is not an undeclared external package in a malicious sense.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)
MEDIUM npm/yarn/pnpm install of an undeclared external package npm_install_external

Runs `npm/yarn/pnpm install <package>` for a package not in source=(), pulling unpinned, unreviewed code at build time. Severity downgraded: the package declares/looks like a Node.js consumer, where build-time installs are expected.

  • PKGBUILD:36 pnpm add -D electron-builder@26.0.0

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: Jason Go <jasongo@jasongo.net>
2# Contributor: Core_UK <dev@coredev.uk>
3
4pkgname=cider
5pkgver=1.6.3.20260321034536
6pkgrel=2
7pkgdesc='An abandoned Apple Music player using a fork of Cider v1 from taoky/Cider'
8arch=('x86_64')
9url='https://github.com/taoky/Cider'
10license=('AGPL-3.0-only')
11depends=(
12 'alsa-lib'
13 'gtk3'
14 'libxcrypt-compat'
15 'nss'
16)
17makedepends=('git' 'nodejs' 'pnpm' 'python')
18optdepends=(
19 'libnotify: Send playback notifications'
20 'gnome-shell-extension-appindicator: Show tray icon in GNOME'
21)
22options=(!buildflags !debug !makeflags !strip)
23source=("git+$url.git#tag=${pkgver##*.}")
24b2sums=('6896547b5cfcc9de8c12d90c32ec4edd9086dab2910d65e7070671f535842b08b5a61b16303901a98d94d73bc7d6c4c68a5a800cb6af3f6a0785eb6d1a3265d5')
25install=cider.install
26
27prepare() {
28 cd Cider
29
30 # Use TOKEN environment variable
31 echo 'localStorage.setItem("lastToken", process.env.TOKEN);' >> ./src/preload/cider-preload.js
32 sed -i "/var prompt = \`Cider is not responding/c\\var prompt = \`Your Apple Music TOKEN is expired or invalid. Edit /usr/share/applications/sh.cider.Cider.desktop and modify the TOKEN value in the Exec line then restart Cider. (Current value of TOKEN=\${lastToken}).\`;" ./src/renderer/main/events.js
33
34 # Prevent weird "SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input" as described here:
35 # https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/9020#issuecomment-2989607912
36 pnpm add -D electron-builder@26.0.0
37
38 pnpm install
39}
40
41build() {
42 cd Cider
43 pnpm run build
44 pnpm exec electron-builder --linux deb --publish=never
45
46 # Extract the deb file
47 bsdtar -xf ./dist/cider*_amd64.deb --include='data.tar*' -O | bsdtar -xf - -C "$srcdir"
48
49 # Add TOKEN environment variable to .desktop file
50 sed -i 's|Exec=/opt/Cider/sh.cider.Cider|Exec=env TOKEN=none CIDER_PORT=9000 /usr/bin/cider|' "$srcdir/usr/share/applications/sh.cider.Cider.desktop"
51
52 # Modify apparmor-profile to include cider link
53 sed -i 's|"/opt/Cider/sh.cider.Cider"|("/opt/Cider/sh.cider.Cider" "/usr/bin/cider")|' "$srcdir/opt/Cider/resources/apparmor-profile"
54}
55
56package() {
57 # 1. CREATE BINARY LINK
58 install -d "$pkgdir/usr/bin/"
59 ln -sf /opt/Cider/sh.cider.Cider "$pkgdir/usr/bin/cider"
60
61 # 2. COPY DEB FILES
62 cp -dr --no-preserve=ownership ./{opt,usr} "$pkgdir"
63
64 # 3. COPY LICENSE AND DOCS
65 install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/cider/" ./Cider/LICENSE
66 install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/cider/" ./Cider/{CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md,README.md}
67
68 # 4. COPY APPARMOR PROFILE
69 install -Dm644 ./opt/Cider/resources/apparmor-profile "$pkgdir/etc/apparmor.d/cider"
70}
71

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