ethos-lang

LOW

maintainer AmanCode22 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD pulls Nuitka from PyPI via pip --user during build, which is non-standard packaging practice (makedepends should list python-nuitka or use a proper source). However, Nuitka is a well-known, widely-used Python compiler available on PyPI with a strong upstream identity, not an obscure or personal package. The actual installed artifact is a compiled binary from the tagged GitHub source of ethos-lang itself, not from the pip-installed tool. The supply-chain concern is real but minor: pip install without a pinned version/hash is sloppy and could theoretically pull a compromised Nuitka release, but this is a standard ecosystem tool with high visibility. The source uses a git tag (though sha256sums is SKIP, which is acceptable for VCS sources). Overall this is a packaging quality issue rather than a genuine medium-severity supply-chain threat.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 82%): The PKGBUILD pulls Nuitka from PyPI via pip --user during build, which is non-standard packaging practice (makedepends should list python-nuitka or use a proper source). However, Nuitka is a well-known, widely-used Python compiler available on PyPI with a strong upstream identity, not an obscure or personal package. The actual installed artifact is a compiled binary from the tagged GitHub source of ethos-lang itself, not from the pip-installed tool. The supply-chain concern is real but minor: pip install without a pinned version/hash is sloppy and could theoretically pull a compromised Nuitka release, but this is a standard ecosystem tool with high visibility. The source uses a git tag (though sha256sums is SKIP, which is acceptable for VCS sources). Overall this is a packaging quality issue rather than a genuine medium-severity supply-chain threat.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

Medium pip install of an external package pip_install_external

`pip install <package>` fetches an unpinned package from PyPI at build time, outside source=() and makepkg's checksums.

PKGBUILD:19 python3 -m pip install --user --break-system-packages nuitka

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Aman Adlakha <amanady125@gmail.com>
    
      2pkgname=ethos-lang
    
      3pkgver=0.5.0
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="The Ethos Programming Language Compiler"
    
      6arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
    
      7url="https://github.com/AmanCode22/ethos-lang"
    
      8license=('Apache-2.0')
    
      9depends=('python' 'python-zstandard' 'gcc' 'patchelf')
    
      10optdepends=('ethos-forge: for managing Ethos packages and projects')
    
      11makedepends=('git' 'python-pip')
    
      12source=("git+https://github.com/AmanCode22/ethos-lang.git#tag=v${pkgver}")
    
      13sha256sums=('SKIP')
    
      14options=('!strip')
    
      15
    
      16build() {
    
      17  cd "${pkgname}"
    
      18  # Install Nuitka locally for build
    
      19  python3 -m pip install --user --break-system-packages nuitka
    
      20  # Compile Ethos using memory-safe flags
    
      21  python3 -m nuitka --assume-yes-for-downloads --jobs=1 --lto=no --low-memory --onefile main.py --output-filename=ethos
    
      22}
    
      23
    
      24package() {
    
      25  cd "${pkgname}"
    
      26  install -Dm755 ethos "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/ethos"
    
      27}
    
      28

Scan history

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2026-09-17 00:27:14	Low	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Low	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Low	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Low	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Low	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Low	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2