frhelper

maintainer sukanka · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from static.frdic.com, which is the official CDN/distribution host for the Eudic/FRHelper proprietary dictionary software (eudic.net). This is a vendor-controlled host, not a random personal or unofficial host. However, the source URL uses a query parameter (?v=date) rather than a versioned path, meaning the same URL could serve different content over time — the sha512sum provides integrity protection for the specific downloaded file, which mitigates substitution risk. The package installs a prebuilt proprietary binary (not compiled from source), which is inherently a supply-chain trust concern, but this is standard practice for proprietary software AUR packages. The DLAGENTS override with a custom User-Agent is unusual but explained in a comment (server returns 404 without it). Overall this is a legitimate proprietary software package from its official distribution host with a checksum, making it a borderline medium — the main concern is the prebuilt binary from a proprietary vendor CDN, which is the standard risk level for such packages in the AUR.

Triggered rules

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:17 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://static.frdic.com/pkg/${pkgname}.deb?v=${_date}")

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from static.frdic.com, which is the official CDN/distribution host for the Eudic/FRHelper proprietary dictionary software (eudic.net). This is a vendor-controlled host, not a random personal or unofficial host. However, the source URL uses a query parameter (?v=date) rather than a versioned path, meaning the same URL could serve different content over time — the sha512sum provides integrity protection for the specific downloaded file, which mitigates substitution risk. The package installs a prebuilt proprietary binary (not compiled from source), which is inherently a supply-chain trust concern, but this is standard practice for proprietary software AUR packages. The DLAGENTS override with a custom User-Agent is unusual but explained in a comment (server returns 404 without it). Overall this is a legitimate proprietary software package from its official distribution host with a checksum, making it a borderline medium — the main concern is the prebuilt binary from a proprietary vendor CDN, which is the standard risk level for such packages in the AUR.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: sukanka <su975853527 at gmail dot com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=frhelper
    
      4pkgver=13.5.2
    
      5_date=2024-08-25
    
      6_lang=fr
    
      7_flang=French
    
      8pkgrel=2
    
      9pkgdesc="Proprietary  ${_flang} dictionary software for linux"
    
      10arch=('x86_64')
    
      11url="https://www.eudic.net/v4/${_lang}/app/${pkgname}"
    
      12license=('unknown')
    
      13depends=(
    
      14  'hicolor-icon-theme'
    
      15)
    
      16provides=("eudic-${_lang}")
    
      17source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://static.frdic.com/pkg/${pkgname}.deb?v=${_date}")
    
      18sha512sums=('cf62206e13afdbce2dd75e9b077ec6a73717138536ac25a64496ba74ba7fb79da3194534cf7e2fe8765f377552a529465f6c922199bf2766cda260346996028a')
    
      19
    
      20# sometime use curl to download source deb, throws 404 not found.
    
      21# user other UA instead of origion one fixed it.
    
      22# https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nonfree_applications_package_guidelines#Custom_DLAGENTS
    
      23DLAGENTS=("https::/usr/bin/curl -A 'Mozilla' -fLC - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 -o %o %u")
    
      24
    
      25prepare() {
    
      26  mkdir -p build
    
      27
    
      28  tar -xf data.tar.xz -C build
    
      29}
    
      30
    
      31package() {
    
      32  _dirname=eusoft-${pkgname}
    
      33
    
      34  install -dm755 ${pkgdir}/usr/share
    
      35
    
      36  cp -pvr build/usr/share/* ${pkgdir}/usr/share/
    
      37
    
      38  # link executable
    
      39  install -dm755 ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/
    
      40  ln -s /usr/share/${_dirname}/${pkgname} \
    
      41    ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}
    
      42
    
      43  # desktop entry
    
      44  sed -i "s|/usr/share/${_dirname}/AppRun|${pkgname}|g" \
    
      45    ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/eusoft-${pkgname}.desktop
    
      46
    
      47
    
      48
    
      49  # remove unused files.
    
      50  rm -rf ${pkgdir}/usr/share/${_dirname}/{gstreamer-1.0,libcrypto.so.1.0.0,libssl.so.1.0.0,AppRun,lib*.so*}
    
      51  # keep qt lib and plugins
    
      52  pushd ${pkgdir}/usr/share/${_dirname}/lib
    
      53    find . -not -name 'libQt*' -not -name 'libicu*' -type f -delete
    
      54  popd
    
      55}
    
      56# vim: ts=2 sw=2 et:
    
      57

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