nvidia-sync

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

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a .deb from NVIDIA's official domain (download.nvidia.com), which is a legitimate source for NVIDIA software; extracting and installing it is standard for AUR packages, and the installed files are transparent and expected for the application.

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 .deb from NVIDIA's official domain (download.nvidia.com), which is a legitimate source for NVIDIA software; extracting and installing it is standard for AUR packages, and the installed files are transparent and expected for the application.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:11 "https://workbench.download.nvidia.com/stable/linux/debian/pool/proprietary/n/nvidia-sync/nvidia-sync_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Johnathon Schultz <jomoschultz+aur [at] gmail [dot] com>
    
      2pkgname=('nvidia-sync' 'nvidia-sync-terminal-fix')
    
      3pkgver=0.100.18
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5arch=('x86_64')
    
      6url="https://build.nvidia.com/spark/connect-to-your-spark/sync"
    
      7license=('custom:NVIDIA')
    
      8
    
      9
    
      10source=(
    
      11	"https://workbench.download.nvidia.com/stable/linux/debian/pool/proprietary/n/nvidia-sync/nvidia-sync_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
    
      12	"nvidia-sync-terminal-launcher.sh"
    
      13)
    
      14sha256sums=('2eeee871e2db29a33ac8f75c3234b59b5804f5edea4923393224acc4b6c776ee'
    
      15            '1cd21fa2618882fae08d26211638c53d60e54573ca8dee42803692fe71a2af4e')
    
      16
    
      17package_nvidia-sync() {
    
      18  pkgdesc="NVIDIA Sync is a desktop app that connects your computer to your DGX Spark over the local network. It gives you a single interface to manage SSH access and launch development tools on your DGX Spark."
    
      19  depends=('gtk3' 'libxss' 'nss' 'libsecret') # Common dependencies for Electron apps
    
      20  optdepends=(
    
      21	'gnome-terminal: For Terminal button support'
    
      22	'nvidia-sync-terminal-fix: For Terminal button support on non-GNOME desktops'
    
      23  )
    
      24
    
      25  # A .deb file is just an 'ar' archive. We extract it.
    
      26  ar -x "${srcdir}/nvidia-sync_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
    
      27
    
      28  # The 'ar' command gives us a 'data.tar.xz'. We extract that into the package folder.
    
      29  tar -xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}/"
    
      30
    
      31  # Copy the license file
    
      32  install -Dm644 "${pkgdir}/opt/NVIDIA Sync/LICENSE.electron.txt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      33
    
      34  # Create a symlink so 'nvidia-sync' is on the user's PATH
    
      35  # We must make the /usr/bin directory first
    
      36  install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      37  ln -s "/opt/NVIDIA Sync/nvidia-sync" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/nvidia-sync"
    
      38}
    
      39
    
      40package_nvidia-sync-terminal-fix() {
    
      41  pkgdesc="Terminal fix for nvidia-sync on non-GNOME desktops"
    
      42  depends=('nvidia-sync') # Depends on the main app + a fallback terminal
    
      43  optdepends=(
    
      44    'ghostty: Preferred terminal'
    
      45    'alacritty: Preferred terminal'
    
      46    'konsole: Preferred terminal'
    
      47  )
    
      48  provides=('gnome-terminal')  # This package PROVIDES the command
    
      49  conflicts=('gnome-terminal') # And it CONFLICTS with the real one
    
      50
    
      51  # Install our wrapper script to /usr/bin
    
      52  install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/nvidia-sync-terminal-launcher.sh" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/nvidia-sync-terminal-launcher"
    
      53
    
      54  # Create the fake 'gnome-terminal' symlink
    
      55  ln -s "/usr/bin/nvidia-sync-terminal-launcher" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/gnome-terminal"
    
      56}
    
      57

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-06-19 19:07
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Maintainer: Johnathon Schultz <jomoschultz+aur [at] gmail [dot] com>
 pkgname=('nvidia-sync' 'nvidia-sync-terminal-fix')
-pkgver=0.97.6
+pkgver=0.100.18
 pkgrel=1
 arch=('x86_64')
 url="https://build.nvidia.com/spark/connect-to-your-spark/sync"
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 	"https://workbench.download.nvidia.com/stable/linux/debian/pool/proprietary/n/nvidia-sync/nvidia-sync_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
 	"nvidia-sync-terminal-launcher.sh"
 )
-sha256sums=('c706b6a58a9dddaa3759197a7e8f46d44e322a0d27e6dda8831af90cd69b0c8b'
+sha256sums=('2eeee871e2db29a33ac8f75c3234b59b5804f5edea4923393224acc4b6c776ee'
             '1cd21fa2618882fae08d26211638c53d60e54573ca8dee42803692fe71a2af4e')
 
 package_nvidia-sync() {

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 21:31:00	MEDIUM	1
2026-06-19 19:07:35	CLEAN	2
2026-06-18 18:55:24	CLEAN	2
2026-06-18 16:11:54	MEDIUM	1