ntpdate

LOW
maintainer Muflone 168 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The source is a legitimate NTP project tarball from a university host (udel.edu), which is the official upstream for NTP; building from this source is normal and expected, despite the non-whitelisted domain.

Triggered rules

Low AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The source is a legitimate NTP project tarball from a university host (udel.edu), which is the official upstream for NTP; building from this source is normal and expected, despite the non-whitelisted domain.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:16 source=("https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/ntp4/ntp-${pkgver%*.*.*}/${_pkgname}-${_pkgver}.tar.gz"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Muflone http://www.muflone.com/contacts/english/
2# Contributor: Sébastien Luttringer <seblu@aur.archlinux.org>
3
4pkgname=ntpdate
5_pkgname=ntp
6_pkgver=4.2.8p18
7pkgver=${_pkgver/p/.p}
8pkgrel=1
9pkgdesc='Client for the Network Time Protocol (NTP)'
10url='http://www.ntp.org/'
11license=('LicenseRef-custom')
12arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
13depends=('openssl')
14conflicts=('ntp' 'ntpdate-dev')
15backup=('etc/conf.d/ntpdate.conf')
16source=("https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/ntp4/ntp-${pkgver%*.*.*}/${_pkgname}-${_pkgver}.tar.gz"
17 "bug_3926_pthread_detach.patch"::"https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ntp/-/raw/4ab37fa86a6e3ffb1e53a2f415098ff934640b26/ntp-4.2.8.p18-fix-build.patch?inline=false"
18 "${pkgname}.conf"
19 "${pkgname}.service")
20sha256sums=('cf84c5f3fb1a295284942624d823fffa634144e096cfc4f9969ac98ef5f468e5'
21 '9c4afa0daed5fd3cc9544ec808b2bb1dd959e5d40c4cae307b7025b16885903c'
22 '1ddbf0f51e030c6ec48d50e1b0eb6682f2d51567fbbb8fdd695a0e38a6036fd7'
23 '2267e19120de4a73703ed0d83a4a0088309600ce3fed88c3c17a950fa0c1aa85')
24
25prepare() {
26 cd "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}-${_pkgver}"
27 # https://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3926
28 # https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/ntp/-/issues/3
29 patch -N -p1 -i "${srcdir}/bug_3926_pthread_detach.patch"
30 autoreconf -fiv
31}
32
33build() {
34 cd "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}-${_pkgver}"
35 ./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib
36 make
37}
38
39package() {
40 install -m 755 -d "${pkgdir}/etc/conf.d"
41 install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/etc/conf.d" "${pkgname}.conf"
42 install -m 755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system"
43 install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system" "${pkgname}.service"
44
45 cd "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}-${_pkgver}"
46 install -m 755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
47 install -m 755 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/bin" "${pkgname}/${pkgname}"
48 install -m 755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
49 install -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}" "COPYRIGHT"
50}
51
52

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