ponyup

LOW
maintainer orphaned 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt binary from a non-whitelisted but official project release host (cloudsmith.io), which is a supply-chain risk if compromised, but the binary is from the legitimate project infrastructure and not obfuscated or executed remotely.

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-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt binary from a non-whitelisted but official project release host (cloudsmith.io), which is a supply-chain risk if compromised, but the binary is from the legitimate project infrastructure and not obfuscated or executed remotely.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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_x86_64=($pkgzip::https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/ponylang/releases/raw/versions/$pkgver/ponyup-x86-64-unknown-linux.tar.gz)

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: thomashrb <thomashrb AT protonmail DOT com>
2# Contributor: Sérgio Gomes <superherointj at gmail dot com>
3pkgname=ponyup
4pkgver=0.6.5
5pkgzip=$pkgname-$pkgver-x86_64.tar.gz
6pkgrel=1
7pkgdesc="The Pony language toolchain multiplexer"
8arch=('x86_64')
9url="https://github.com/ponylang/ponyup"
10license=('BSD')
11makedepends=(
12 'curl'
13 'sed'
14 'tar'
15)
16depends=('openssl')
17source_x86_64=($pkgzip::https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/ponylang/releases/raw/versions/$pkgver/ponyup-x86-64-unknown-linux.tar.gz)
18sha256sums_x86_64=('f0fa73bfbbd0e186bc8b22872837196c1672a373e25bf88749db4b59ecbb4784')
19
20
21install=${pkgname}.install
22
23prepare() {
24 tmp_dir=/tmp/ponyup
25 mkdir -p "${tmp_dir}"
26 tar -xzf "${pkgzip}" -C "${tmp_dir}/"
27}
28
29package() {
30 ponyup_bin=$(find ${tmp_dir} -name ponyup -type f)
31 ponyup_root=$HOME/.local/share/ponyup
32 install_dir=$ponyup_root/bin
33 mkdir -p $install_dir
34 chmod -R 646 $install_dir
35 echo "x86_64-linux-gnu" > "${ponyup_root}/.platform"
36 install -Dm755 $ponyup_bin $install_dir
37}
38

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