polylauncher-bin

MEDIUM
maintainer NotRx 0 votes scanned 2026-10-26 05:43:49.644165
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from an unverifiable source (GitHub-like domain not on whitelist) with no checksum verification, posing a supply-chain risk if the host is compromised or spoofed.

Triggered rules

Low Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

Medium AI review of an ambiguous pattern llm_review

The static rules found a suspicious pattern they could not resolve, so an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed it and judged it MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from an unverifiable source (GitHub-like domain not on whitelist) with no checksum verification, posing a supply-chain risk if the host is compromised or spoofed.

PKGBUILD

1# Maintainer: NotReallyRx
2pkgname=polylauncher-bin
3_name=PolyLauncher
4pkgver=0.2.1
5pkgrel=2
6pkgdesc="PolyTrack Launcher For Multiple Versions Of The Game"
7arch=('x86_64')
8url="https://git.polymodloader.com/PolyLauncher/PolyLauncher"
9license=('custom')
10depends=('fuse2' 'zlib' 'glibc')
11makedepends=('git' 'curl')
12provides=('polylauncher')
13options=('!strip')
14source=("git+${url}.git")
15sha256sums=('SKIP')
16
17pkgver() {
18 cd "${srcdir}/${_name}"
19 git tag --sort=-v:refname | head -n1 | sed 's/^v//'
20}
21
22build() {
23 cd "${srcdir}"
24 curl -fL -o "${_name}.AppImage" \
25 "${url}/releases/download/${pkgver}/${_name}_${pkgver}_amd64.AppImage"
26}
27
28package() {
29 install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/${_name}.AppImage" \
30 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/polylauncher/PolyLauncher.AppImage"
31
32 install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
33 ln -s /usr/share/polylauncher/PolyLauncher.AppImage "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/polylauncher"
34
35 install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/${_name}/public/images/PolyLauncher.png" \
36 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/polylauncher.png"
37
38 install -Dm644 /dev/stdin "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/polylauncher.desktop" <<EOF
39[Desktop Entry]
40Type=Application
41Name=PolyLauncher
42Comment=PolyTrack Launcher
43Exec=polylauncher %U
44Icon=polylauncher
45Terminal=false
46Categories=Game;
47EOF
48}
49

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