repoup

maintainer Connor · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary package (.pkg.tar.zst) from concise.cc, a personal domain belonging to the maintainer, rather than from the official upstream GitLab repository (gitlab.com/a4to/repoup). The binary is then directly installed into /usr/bin/. While a PGP signature is verified (validpgpkeys is set) and sha512sums are provided, the fundamental concern remains: the binary is not built from source, and it originates from a personal host rather than the official project infrastructure. If concise.cc were compromised or the maintainer acted maliciously, users would execute arbitrary code. The correct pattern for AUR packages is to either build from source or fetch release artifacts from the official upstream host. This is a genuine supply-chain concern warranting a MEDIUM rating.

Triggered rules

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:12 "https://concise.cc/pkg/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-$arch.pkg.tar.zst"

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 85%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary package (.pkg.tar.zst) from concise.cc, a personal domain belonging to the maintainer, rather than from the official upstream GitLab repository (gitlab.com/a4to/repoup). The binary is then directly installed into /usr/bin/. While a PGP signature is verified (validpgpkeys is set) and sha512sums are provided, the fundamental concern remains: the binary is not built from source, and it originates from a personal host rather than the official project infrastructure. If concise.cc were compromised or the maintainer acted maliciously, users would execute arbitrary code. The correct pattern for AUR packages is to either build from source or fetch release artifacts from the official upstream host. This is a genuine supply-chain concern warranting a MEDIUM rating.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Connor Etherington <connor@concise.cc>
    
      2# ---
    
      3pkgname=repoup
    
      4pkgver=0.1.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="A git repository updater and manager"
    
      7arch=(any)
    
      8url="https://gitlab.com/a4to/${pkgname}"
    
      9license=('MIT')
    
      10depends=()
    
      11source=(
    
      12  "https://concise.cc/pkg/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-$arch.pkg.tar.zst"
    
      13  "https://concise.cc/pkg/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-$arch.pkg.tar.zst.sig"
    
      14  )
    
      15sha512sums=(
    
      16  '3f0dad993fd4e754e4b0c67da34b5a8479278deb51ef674bbbb0df61be90811ad336af966efdc0a837e1ba308e27f56dab50d09d677e0fda8719f2c621bd9294'
    
      17  '6f515b736f94f2732b7dd056061d64eb8958ac701bd3505dc69ddea75e9d03539dfcc57790d1ce2c3bb9d09e653c162d8c0d0e21c49ccb729631fc62d42df0f9'
    
      18  )
    
      19md5sums=(
    
      20  '91c46a72410a989da7b2938104a29d35'
    
      21  '03b7c1ba6966b0276869f60cff386e69'
    
      22  )
    
      23validpgpkeys=('9A1F3F41DDA55A60331CB8DD3714CB0967D15980')
    
      24
    
      25package() {
    
      26    install -Dm644 usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      27    install -Dm644 usr/share/repoup/repouprc "${pkgdir}${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/repoup/repouprc"
    
      28    install -Dm755 usr/bin/${pkgname} "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
    
      29}
    
      30

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