ftb-app-bin

LOW
maintainer su226 4 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from the project's own domain (piston.feed-the-beast.com), which is plausibly official; the binary is unpacked and installed without remote code execution, and the host, while not standard, is project-related, reducing supply-chain risk.

Triggered rules

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 package downloads a prebuilt .deb from the project's own domain (piston.feed-the-beast.com), which is plausibly official; the binary is unpacked and installed without remote code execution, and the host, while not standard, is project-related, reducing supply-chain risk.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:26 source_x86_64=("https://piston.feed-the-beast.com/app/ftb-app-linux-${pkgver}-amd64.deb")

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: su226 <thesu226 at outlook dot com>
2# Contributor: alphRomeo323 <alpharomeo323dev at protonmail dot com>
3# Contributor: William Brown <glowinthedarkcia at horsefucker dot org>
4
5pkgname=ftb-app-bin
6pkgver=1.30.0
7pkgrel=1
8epoch=
9pkgdesc="A new Modpack launcher for FTB and Curse modpacks."
10arch=(x86_64 aarch64)
11url="https://feed-the-beast.com/ftb-app"
12license=("LGPL-2.1-only")
13groups=()
14depends=("alsa-lib" "nss" "gtk3")
15makedepends=()
16checkdepends=()
17# FTB App will download Adoptium for itself and Minecraft, althrough system Java can be used for Minecraft too.
18optdepends=("java-runtime: Playing Minecraft with system Java.")
19provides=(ftb-app)
20conflicts=(ftb-app)
21replaces=()
22backup=()
23options=()
24install=
25changelog=
26source_x86_64=("https://piston.feed-the-beast.com/app/ftb-app-linux-${pkgver}-amd64.deb")
27source_aarch64=("https://piston.feed-the-beast.com/app/ftb-app-linux-${pkgver}-arm64.deb")
28noextract=()
29sha256sums_x86_64=('ca9a00f9d2aaa74528b034d7ba9874820f60c345feb8b34755b90fcde893ee82')
30sha256sums_aarch64=('742c461dc96894dc51e2af828688958eeab9d2b8f781fdf6ed873d4f6fd7cf06')
31validpgpkeys=()
32
33package() {
34 tar -xJf "$srcdir/data.tar.xz" -C "$pkgdir"
35
36 # move "/opt/FTB Electron App" to /opt/ftb-app
37 mv "$pkgdir/opt/FTB Electron App" "$pkgdir/opt/ftb-app"
38 sed -i 's#/opt/FTB Electron App/ftb-app#/opt/ftb-app/ftb-app#' "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/ftb-app.desktop"
39
40 # prevent self-upgrade with dpkg
41 echo "pacman" > "$pkgdir/opt/ftb-app/resources/package-type"
42
43 install -d "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
44 ln -s /opt/ftb-app/ftb-app "$pkgdir/usr/bin/ftb-app"
45}
46

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
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