idrive-bin

LOW

maintainer andybarilla 1 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt binary installer from the official vendor domain (idrivedownloads.com) which is plausibly owned by IDrive; despite the unverifiable checksum, it is a legitimate source for the software and no malicious behavior is evident.

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 package downloads a prebuilt binary installer from the official vendor domain (idrivedownloads.com) which is plausibly owned by IDrive; despite the unverifiable checksum, it is a legitimate source for the software and no malicious behavior is evident.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:25 source=("idriveforlinux.bin::https://www.idrivedownloads.com/downloads/linux/linux-bin/idriveforlinux.bin")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Andy <this.is.apb@gmail.com>
    
      2pkgname=idrive-bin
    
      3pkgver=3.15.0
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="IDrive cloud backup for Linux - official interactive menu (idrive) and idevsutil engines"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://www.idrive.com/online-backup-linux-scripts"
    
      8license=('LicenseRef-IDrive')
    
      9# popt: required by the idevsutil/idevsutil_dedup transfer engines (not part of
    
      10# base). curl/cronie/which: used by idrive at runtime for transfers and scheduling.
    
      11depends=('popt' 'curl' 'cronie' 'which')
    
      12# Cloud Drive (3.15.0+) is enabled from the idrive menu; its bundled install.sh
    
      13# would otherwise pull these in itself via `pacman -Sy`, which is a partial
    
      14# upgrade. Install them with pacman first instead.
    
      15optdepends=('valkey: Cloud Drive sync (redis-compatible server)'
    
      16            'python: Cloud Drive sync'
    
      17            'python-psutil: Cloud Drive sync')
    
      18provides=('idrive')
    
      19conflicts=('idrive')
    
      20# Vendored prebuilt binaries: don't strip/relink, and skip the static-lib check.
    
      21options=('!strip' '!emptydirs' 'staticlibs')
    
      22install="$pkgname.install"
    
      23# Upstream serves a single, unversioned "latest" installer, so the checksum
    
      24# cannot be pinned; pkgver() below reads the real version out of it after download.
    
      25source=("idriveforlinux.bin::https://www.idrivedownloads.com/downloads/linux/linux-bin/idriveforlinux.bin")
    
      26sha256sums=('SKIP')
    
      27
    
      28pkgver() {
    
      29	grep -m1 -aoP '^APPVERSION="\K[^"]+' "$srcdir/idriveforlinux.bin"
    
      30}
    
      31
    
      32package() {
    
      33	cd "$srcdir"
    
      34
    
      35	# The .bin is a shell self-extractor with a gzipped tar appended after a
    
      36	# line matching __idrive__; unpack that payload into /opt (DESTPARENT).
    
      37	local marker
    
      38	marker=$(awk '/^__idrive__/ {print NR + 1; exit}' idriveforlinux.bin)
    
      39	# --no-same-owner: ignore the uids baked into the vendor tar so everything
    
      40	# ends up root-owned under fakeroot.
    
      41	install -d "$pkgdir/opt"
    
      42	tail -n +"$marker" idriveforlinux.bin | tar xz --no-same-owner -C "$pkgdir/opt"
    
      43
    
      44	local dest="$pkgdir/opt/IDriveForLinux"
    
      45	local deps="$dest/bin/Idrivelib/dependencies"
    
      46
    
      47	# Place the main menu binary for this architecture (k3 = modern kernels),
    
      48	# mirroring what the upstream installer does, then drop the other arches.
    
      49	tar xzf "$deps/linuxbin/k3/$CARCH/idrive.tar.gz" --no-same-owner -C "$dest/bin/"
    
      50	chmod 0755 "$dest/bin/idrive"
    
      51	rm -rf "$deps/linuxbin"
    
      52
    
      53	# Same for the Cloud Drive binary (x86_64 only, hence the guard): the
    
      54	# installer unpacks it next to the install.sh/uninstall.sh helpers that
    
      55	# already ship in dependencies/cloud-drive, then drops the per-arch dir.
    
      56	if [ -f "$deps/cloudbin/k3/$CARCH/cloud-drive.tar.gz" ]; then
    
      57		tar xzf "$deps/cloudbin/k3/$CARCH/cloud-drive.tar.gz" \
    
      58			--no-same-owner -C "$deps/cloud-drive/"
    
      59		chmod 0755 "$deps/cloud-drive/cloud-drive"
    
      60	fi
    
      61	chmod 0755 "$deps/cloud-drive/install.sh" "$deps/cloud-drive/uninstall.sh"
    
      62	rm -rf "$deps/cloudbin"
    
      63
    
      64	# Keep only the generic Linux transfer engines; the NAS-appliance variants
    
      65	# (QNAP/Synology/Netgear/Vault) are useless on a desktop/server install.
    
      66	find "$deps/evsbin" -type f -name '*.tar.gz' ! -name 'IDrive_linux_*' -delete
    
      67
    
      68	# Bundled python is per-arch; keep only this architecture's copy.
    
      69	find "$deps/pythonbin" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 ! -name k3 -exec rm -rf {} +
    
      70	find "$deps/pythonbin/k3" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 ! -name "$CARCH" -exec rm -rf {} +
    
      71
    
      72	# CLI entry point. idrive keeps its state under /opt and schedules root cron
    
      73	# jobs, so it must run as root; the wrapper escalates via sudo when needed.
    
      74	# It also enters the app's bin dir first, since idrive resolves some paths
    
      75	# relative to the working directory.
    
      76	install -d "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      77	cat > "$pkgdir/usr/bin/idrive" <<-'EOF'
    
      78		#!/bin/sh
    
      79		if [ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]; then
    
      80			if command -v sudo >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    
      81				exec sudo -- "$0" "$@"
    
      82			fi
    
      83			echo "idrive must be run as root; re-run with: sudo idrive" >&2
    
      84			exit 1
    
      85		fi
    
      86		cd /opt/IDriveForLinux/bin && exec ./idrive "$@"
    
      87	EOF
    
      88	chmod 0755 "$pkgdir/usr/bin/idrive"
    
      89
    
      90	# Proprietary license: ship a pointer to the canonical Terms of Service plus
    
      91	# the bundled readme. The full terms are not redistributed as text.
    
      92	install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
    
      93	cat > "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE" <<-'EOF'
    
      94		IDrive for Linux is proprietary software, Copyright IDrive Inc.
    
      95
    
      96		Use is governed by the IDrive Terms of Service:
    
      97		    https://www.idrive.com/terms-and-conditions
    
      98
    
      99		This package redistributes the unmodified official installer payload
    
      100		from https://www.idrive.com/online-backup-linux-scripts for convenience.
    
      101	EOF
    
      102	install -m644 "$dest/bin/readme.txt" \
    
      103		"$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/readme.txt"
    
      104}
    
      105

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2026-11-01 00:21:48	Low	2
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