drppbox

LOW
maintainer marchos1as 0 votes scanned 2026-10-17 00:21:55.226236
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Why flagged

The binary tarball is downloaded from Dropbox's own official CDN (edge.dropboxstatic.com) and verified with a PGP signature from Dropbox's official Linux signing key, making supply-chain substitution very unlikely; the SKIP'd checksum on the tarball is acceptable given the PGP verification, and all other sources are local bundled files or data files with proper checksums.

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 downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 70%): The binary tarball is downloaded from Dropbox's own official CDN (edge.dropboxstatic.com) and verified with a PGP signature from Dropbox's official Linux signing key, making supply-chain substitution very unlikely; the SKIP'd checksum on the tarball is acceptable given the PGP verification, and all other sources are local bundled files or data files with proper checksums.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:28 "https://edge.dropboxstatic.com/dbx-releng/client/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-$pkgver.tar.gz"{,.asc})

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: Massimiliano Torromeo <massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com>
2# Contributor: Chih-Hsuan Yen <yan12125@gmail.com>
3# Contributor: Tom < tomgparchaur at gmail dot com >
4# Contributor: David Manouchehri <d@32t.ca>
5
6pkgname=drppbox
7pkgver=272.4.3798
8pkgrel=1
9pkgdesc="A free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily."
10arch=("x86_64")
11url="https://www.dropbox.com"
12license=(custom:Dropbox)
13depends=("libsm" "libxslt" "libxmu" "libxdamage" "libxrender" "libxxf86vm" "libxcomposite" "fontconfig" "dbus")
14makedepends=("gendesk")
15optdepends=(
16 'ufw-extras: ufw rules for dropbox'
17 'perl-file-mimeinfo: opening dropbox folder on some desktop environments'
18 'xdg-utils: for "Launch Dropbox Website" and file manager integration'
19 'libappindicator-gtk3: make tray icons themed under some desktop environments like KDE plasma'
20)
21options=('!strip')
22
23# https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/0eu2dsn07fy5k0gt5fy74/AABbXqKHbY_mobVJhqgfOXYja/Glyph/Dropbox/SVG/DropboxGlyph_Blue.svg
24source=("DropboxGlyph_Blue.svg"
25 "terms.txt"
26 "dropbox.service"
27 "dropbox@.service"
28 "https://edge.dropboxstatic.com/dbx-releng/client/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-$pkgver.tar.gz"{,.asc})
29
30sha256sums=('9ba76205ec5838db85d822f23cfd7e2112fd2757e8031d8374709f102143c548'
31 '1610ff57e8b20ee7a37682c3cc505da4ddc9cec2bd7234c90c0f2073657521d2'
32 '6c67a9c8c95c08fafafd2f1d828074b13e3347b05d2e4f4bf4e62746115d7477'
33 '98581e65a91ae1f19ed42edcdaaa52e102298b5da0d71b50089393d364474d3d'
34 'bf0b0945ace2c02fe790189fece8a2fa9c3a9c7e9fef879eb34b01098a957a01'
35 'SKIP')
36# The PGP key fingerprint should match the one on https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/linux-commands
37validpgpkeys=(
38 '1C61A2656FB57B7E4DE0F4C1FC918B335044912E' # Dropbox Automatic Signing Key <linux@dropbox.com>
39)
40
41prepare() {
42 gendesk --pkgname="$pkgname" --pkgdesc="$pkgdesc" --categories=Network -f PKGBUILD
43}
44
45package() {
46 install -d "$pkgdir"/opt
47 cp -dr --no-preserve=ownership "$srcdir"/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-$pkgver "$pkgdir"/opt/dropbox
48 chmod 755 "$pkgdir"/opt/dropbox/*.so
49
50 install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/bin
51 ln -s ../../opt/dropbox/dropbox "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/dropbox
52
53 install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/dropbox.desktop -t "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications
54 install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/DropboxGlyph_Blue.svg "$pkgdir"/usr/share/pixmaps/dropbox.svg
55 install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/terms.txt -t "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname
56 install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/dropbox.service -t "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/systemd/user
57 install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/dropbox@.service -t "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/systemd/system
58}
59
60pkgrel=2
61install="$pkgname.install"
62

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2026-10-17 00:21:55 Low 3
2026-10-16 00:12:47 Low 3
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