ni-visa

maintainer onguntoglu · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a VISA library ISO from National Instruments' official ftp server, which is a non-whitelisted but legitimate and project-specific host; the source is not executed remotely, and the build extracts and packages official binaries via standard procedures.

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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 VISA library ISO from National Instruments' official ftp server, which is a non-whitelisted but legitimate and project-specific host; the source is not executed remotely, and the build extracts and packages official binaries via standard procedures.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:17 source=("http://ftp.ni.com/support/softlib/visa/NI-VISA/${_short_ver}/Linux/NI-VISA-${pkgver}.iso"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: t-onoz <t [dot] onozuka [dot] 1990 [at] (g-mail)>>
    
      2# Contributor: Grey Christoforo <first name [at] last name [dot] net>
    
      3pkgname=('ni-visa')
    
      4_pkgbase=('ni-visa')
    
      5provides=('ni-visa' 'lib32-ni-visa')
    
      6pkgver=17.0.0
    
      7_short_ver=${pkgver%.0}
    
      8pkgrel=3
    
      9pkgdesc="National Instruments NI-VISA(TM) Library for Linux."
    
      10url="https://www.ni.com/visa/"
    
      11arch=('x86_64')
    
      12license=('custom')
    
      13depends=('gcc-libs' 'bash')
    
      14optdepends=('python2-pyvisa: python 2 frontend'
    
      15'python-pyvisa: python 3 frontend'
    
      16'lib32-gcc-libs: for 32-bit libraries')
    
      17source=("http://ftp.ni.com/support/softlib/visa/NI-VISA/${_short_ver}/Linux/NI-VISA-${pkgver}.iso"
    
      18"ni-visa.patch"
    
      19"99-usbtmc.rules")
    
      20md5sums=('d114b70ce0802fa6bd7173a6f23f7257'
    
      21         'd46807a8283d8497d316778ac266d514'
    
      22         'cdfd2e18de4370001bfbe0226cf04b18')
    
      23install='ni-visa.install'
    
      24
    
      25_vxipnppath="opt/${_pkgbase}/usr/local/vxipnp"
    
      26
    
      27backup=("${_vxipnppath}/linux/NIvisa/Passport64/nivisa.ini"
    
      28  "${_vxipnppath}/linux/NIvisa/Passport/nivisa.ini"
    
      29  "${_vxipnppath}/linux/NIvisa/visaconf.ini"
    
      30  "etc/udev/rules.d/99-nivisa_usbraw.rules")
    
      31
    
      32prepare() {
    
      33  bsdtar -xf "${srcdir}"/nivisa-${pkgver}f*.tar.gz
    
      34  mkdir -p "${srcdir}"/extract
    
      35  for f in "${srcdir}"/rpms/nivisa{-32bit,}-${pkgver}-f*.x86_64.rpm; do
    
      36    bsdtar -xf $f -C "${srcdir}"/extract
    
      37  done
    
      38  cd "${srcdir}"
    
      39  patch -p1 -i "${srcdir}"/ni-visa.patch
    
      40}
    
      41
    
      42package() {
    
      43  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}"/usr/{include,lib,lib32,bin}
    
      44  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/environment.d
    
      45  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}"/opt/${_pkgbase}/usr/local/
    
      46  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}"/etc/{profile.d,natinst}
    
      47  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}"/etc/udev/rules.d
    
      48
    
      49  echo > "${pkgdir}"/etc/udev/rules.d/99-nivisa_usbraw.rules
    
      50
    
      51  cp -a "${srcdir}"/extract/usr/local/vxipnp "${pkgdir}"/${_vxipnppath}
    
      52
    
      53  ln -s /${_vxipnppath}/linux/lib64/libvisa.so "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/libvisa.so
    
      54  ln -s /${_vxipnppath}/linux/bin/libvisa.so "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib32/libvisa.so
    
      55  for f in "${pkgdir}/${_vxipnppath}/linux/include/"*.h; do
    
      56    ln -s "${f#${pkgdir}}" "${pkgdir}/usr/include/"
    
      57  done
    
      58
    
      59  echo "/${_vxipnppath}" > "${pkgdir}"/${_vxipnppath}/etc/nivisa.dir
    
      60  echo "/${_vxipnppath}" > "${pkgdir}"/${_vxipnppath}/etc/vxipnp.dir
    
      61  ln -s /${_vxipnppath}/etc "${pkgdir}"/etc/natinst/nivisa
    
      62  ln -s /${_vxipnppath}/etc "${pkgdir}"/etc/natinst/vxipnp
    
      63
    
      64  ln -s /${_vxipnppath}/linux/NIvisa/USB/AddUsbRawPermissions.sh "${pkgdir}"/usr/bin/AddUsbRawPermissions.sh
    
      65
    
      66  install -Dm644 99-usbtmc.rules "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/99-usbtmc.rules"
    
      67  # environment variable: for gdm on Wayland
    
      68  echo "VXIPNPPATH=/${_vxipnppath}" > "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/environment.d/40-vxipnppath.conf
    
      69  # environment variable: for xorg or console
    
      70  echo "export VXIPNPPATH=/${_vxipnppath}" > "${pkgdir}/etc/profile.d/vxipnppath.sh"
    
      71  install -D -m644 "${srcdir}/LICENSE.txt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      72}
    
      73
    
      74# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
    
      75

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