microsoft-edge-canary

maintainer jhonforbes_2009 · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
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Why flagged The package builds from Microsoft's official repository, which is a legitimate source for the prebuilt Edge Canary .deb; the download is unverifiable but from Microsoft's own domain, and the package installs only the official browser binaries without executing remote code or exfiltrating data.

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An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The package builds from Microsoft's official repository, which is a legitimate source for the prebuilt Edge Canary .deb; the download is unverifiable but from Microsoft's own domain, and the package installs only the official browser binaries without executing remote code or exfiltrating data.

PKGBUILD

1# Maintainer: jhonforbes_2009 <hermanojhonforbes@hotmail.com>
2pkgname=microsoft-edge-canary
3pkgver=152.0.4175.0
4pkgrel=1
5pkgdesc="The web browser from Microsoft (Canary channel)"
6arch=('x86_64')
7url="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge"
8license=('custom')
9depends=('alsa-lib' 'at-spi2-core' 'cairo' 'dbus' 'expat' 'gcc-libs' 'gdk-pixbuf2' 'glib2' 'gtk3' 'libcups' 'libdrm' 'libx11' 'libxcb' 'libxcursor' 'libxcomposite' 'libxdamage' 'libxext' 'libxfixes' 'libxkbcommon' 'libxrandr' 'libxshmfence' 'libxtst' 'mesa' 'nss' 'nspr' 'pango' 'systemd-libs' 'util-linux-libs' 'xdg-utils' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'ca-certificates' 'wget' 'libcurl-gnutls' 'qt5-base' 'qt6-base')
10optdepends=('libunity: for download progress badges'
11 'pipewire: WebRTC desktop sharing under Wayland'
12 'wayland: for native Wayland support'
13 'vulkan-icd-loader: for Vulkan GPU acceleration'
14 'libglvnd: for OpenGL dispatch'
15 'libpulse: for PulseAudio audio backend'
16 'libsecret: for storing passwords'
17 'krb5: for Kerberos network authentication'
18 'libspeechd: for text-to-speech support'
19 'libva: for hardware video decoding (VA-API)'
20 'onnxruntime: for local AI model execution'
21 'apparmor: for additional process sandboxing'
22 'kdialog: for file dialogs in KDE'
23 'ttf-liberation: fix fonts for some PDFs'
24 'gnome-keyring: for storing passwords in GNOME keyring'
25 'gnome-control-center: for default browser settings in GNOME')
26provides=('microsoft-edge-canary' 'microsoft-edge')
27conflicts=('microsoft-edge-canary' 'microsoft-edge')
28options=('!emptydirs' '!strip' '!zipman')
29source=()
30sha256sums=()
31
32pkgver() {
33 # Escanear el repositorio APT de Microsoft para encontrar la última versión Canary
34 _url="https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge-canary/pool/main/m/microsoft-edge-canary/"
35 _deb=$(curl -fsSL -A "Mozilla/5.0" "$_url" | grep -oP 'href="microsoft-edge-canary_[0-9][^"]*_amd64.deb"' | sed 's/href="//;s/"$//' | sort -V | tail -1)
36 _ver=$(echo "$_deb" | grep -oP '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' | head -1)
37 echo "${_ver:-$pkgver}"
38}
39
40prepare() {
41 cd "$srcdir"
42 _url="https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge-canary/pool/main/m/microsoft-edge-canary/microsoft-edge-canary_${pkgver}-1_amd64.deb"
43 curl -fsSL -A "Mozilla/5.0" -o edge-canary.deb "$_url"
44 bsdtar -xf edge-canary.deb
45 bsdtar -xf data.tar.*
46}
47
48package() {
49 mkdir -p "$pkgdir/opt/microsoft/msedge-canary" "$pkgdir/usr/bin" "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications" "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor"
50
51 cp -a "$srcdir/opt/microsoft/msedge-canary/." "$pkgdir/opt/microsoft/msedge-canary/"
52
53 # Los iconos de Edge Canary llevan el sufijo _canary
54 find "$pkgdir/opt/microsoft/msedge-canary/" -name "product_logo_*.png" | while read -r img; do
55 size=$(basename "$img" | grep -oP '\d+')
56 if [[ -n "$size" ]]; then
57 install -Dm644 "$img" "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}x${size}/apps/microsoft-edge-canary.png"
58 fi
59 done
60
61 ln -s /opt/microsoft/msedge-canary/microsoft-edge-canary "$pkgdir/usr/bin/microsoft-edge-canary"
62
63 cat > "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/microsoft-edge-canary.desktop" <<EOF
64[Desktop Entry]
65Version=1.0
66Name=Microsoft Edge Canary
67Exec=/usr/bin/microsoft-edge-canary %U
68Terminal=false
69Icon=microsoft-edge-canary
70Type=Application
71Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
72MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;image/webp;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;
73Actions=new-window;new-private-window;
74
75[Desktop Action new-window]
76Name=New Window
77Exec=/usr/bin/microsoft-edge-canary
78
79[Desktop Action new-private-window]
80Name=New InPrivate Window
81Exec=/usr/bin/microsoft-edge-canary --inprivate
82EOF
83}
84

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-24 13:27
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
_url="https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge-canary/pool/main/m/microsoft-edge-canary/"
_deb=$(curl -fsSL -A "Mozilla/5.0" "$_url" | grep -oP 'href="microsoft-edge-canary_[0-9][^"]*_amd64.deb"' | sed 's/href="//;s/"$//' | sort -V | tail -1)
_ver=$(echo "$_deb" | grep -oP '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' | head -1)
- echo "$_ver"
+ echo "${_ver:-$pkgver}"
}
prepare() {

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