gnome-night-shift-git

LOW

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

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Why flagged

The flagged privileged installs are systemd user services and scripts that run without elevated privileges; they are part of the package's normal functionality and do not represent a security 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-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The flagged privileged installs are systemd user services and scripts that run without elevated privileges; they are part of the package's normal functionality and do not represent a security risk.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

Medium Privileged / out-of-pacman install (sudoers, setuid, or self-update) privileged_install

The package grants elevated privileges or installs an update path outside pacman: a /etc/sudoers.d rule (often passwordless), a setuid/setgid binary, or a self-update script/service that can fetch and run future code with no checksum verification. The initial install may be verified, but the ongoing privilege + update surface is a real supply-chain / privilege-escalation risk.

PKGBUILD:32 install -Dm644 $srcdir/$pkgname/app/home/config/systemd/user/auto-update-gnome-theme.service "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/user/auto-update-gnome-theme.service"
PKGBUILD:33 install -Dm644 $srcdir/$pkgname/app/home/config/systemd/user/auto-update-gnome-theme.path "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/user/auto-update-gnome-theme.path"
PKGBUILD:42 install -Dm755 $srcdir/$pkgname/app/home/local/bin/auto-update-gnome-theme.sh "$pkgdir/usr/lib/gnome-night-shift/bin/auto-update-gnome-theme.sh"
.install:4 echo -e "\`systemctl --user enable --now gnome-night-shift.timer get-sunrise-sunset.timer auto-update-gnome-theme\`"

PKGBUILD

3 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Christopher McAdams <mca.christopher@gmail.com>
    
      2pkgname="gnome-night-shift-git"
    
      3pkgver=r24.53b3991
    
      4pkgrel=2
    
      5pkgdesc="::Rolling release:: A Small utility that runs in the background changes to dark mode when the sunsets and light mode when the sunrises"
    
      6arch=('any')
    
      7url="https://github.com/christophermca/gnome-night-shift"
    
      8license=('GPL-1.0-or-later')
    
      9makedepends=('git')
    
      10provides=('get-sunrise-sunset.service' 'get-sunrise-sunset.timer' 'gnome-night-shift.service' 'gnome-night-shift.timer' 'auto-update-gnome-theme.path' 'auto-update-gnome-theme.service')
    
      11conflicts=(
    
      12            'gnome-shell-extension-night-shift-git'
    
      13            'gnome-mode-shift-git'
    
      14            'alacritty-use-theme-with-redshift'
    
      15            'alacritty-use-theme-with-redshift-git')
    
      16source=("$pkgname::git+https://github.com/christophermca/gnome-night-shift.git/")
    
      17sha256sums=('SKIP')
    
      18depends=( 'bash' 'python' )
    
      19
    
      20pkgver() {
    
      21   cd "$pkgname"
    
      22   printf "r%s.%s" "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse --short=7 HEAD)"
    
      23}
    
      24
    
      25   package() {
    
      26      cd "$pkgname"
    
      27      # options and directives that can be overridden
    
      28      pkgdesc="::Rolling release:: Changes gnomes perferred mode based on sunrise/sunset"
    
      29      install=gnome-night-shift-git.install
    
      30
    
      31      # systemd units
    
      32      install -Dm644 $srcdir/$pkgname/app/home/config/systemd/user/auto-update-gnome-theme.service "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/user/auto-update-gnome-theme.service"
    
      33      install -Dm644 $srcdir/$pkgname/app/home/config/systemd/user/auto-update-gnome-theme.path "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/user/auto-update-gnome-theme.path"
    
      34
    
      35      install -Dm644 $srcdir/$pkgname/app/home/config/systemd/user/get-sunrise-sunset.service "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/user/get-sunrise-sunset.service"
    
      36      install -Dm644 $srcdir/$pkgname/app/home/config/systemd/user/get-sunrise-sunset.timer "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/user/get-sunrise-sunset.timer"
    
      37
    
      38      install -Dm644 $srcdir/$pkgname/app/home/config/systemd/user/gnome-night-shift.service "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-night-shift.service"
    
      39      install -Dm644 $srcdir/$pkgname/app/home/config/systemd/user/gnome-night-shift.timer "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-night-shift.timer"
    
      40
    
      41      # scripts
    
      42      install -Dm755 $srcdir/$pkgname/app/home/local/bin/auto-update-gnome-theme.sh "$pkgdir/usr/lib/gnome-night-shift/bin/auto-update-gnome-theme.sh"
    
      43      install -Dm755 $srcdir/$pkgname/app/home/local/bin/get-sunrise-sunset.py "$pkgdir/usr/lib/gnome-night-shift/bin/get-sunrise-sunset.py"
    
      44      install -Dm755 $srcdir/$pkgname/app/home/local/bin/is_day_or_night.sh "$pkgdir/usr/lib/gnome-night-shift/bin/is_day_or_night.sh"
    
      45
    
      46      # vars
    
      47      install -Dm644 $srcdir/$pkgname/app/home/local/gnome-night-shift/shared-variables.sh "$pkgdir/usr/lib/gnome-night-shift/shared-variables.sh"
    
      48  }
    
      49

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-02 00:02
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-17 00:27
@@ -2,13 +2,15 @@
 pkgname="gnome-night-shift-git"
 pkgver=r24.53b3991
 pkgrel=2
-pkgdesc="::Rolling release:: A Small utility to switch the selected preferred mode."
+pkgdesc="::Rolling release:: A Small utility that runs in the background changes to dark mode when the sunsets and light mode when the sunrises"
 arch=('any')
 url="https://github.com/christophermca/gnome-night-shift"
 license=('GPL-1.0-or-later')
 makedepends=('git')
 provides=('get-sunrise-sunset.service' 'get-sunrise-sunset.timer' 'gnome-night-shift.service' 'gnome-night-shift.timer' 'auto-update-gnome-theme.path' 'auto-update-gnome-theme.service')
-conflicts=( 'gnome-mode-shift-git'
+conflicts=(
+            'gnome-shell-extension-night-shift-git'
+            'gnome-mode-shift-git'
             'alacritty-use-theme-with-redshift'
             'alacritty-use-theme-with-redshift-git')
 source=("$pkgname::git+https://github.com/christophermca/gnome-night-shift.git/")

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