riptide-browser-bin
The package downloads a prebuilt binary from the project's official GitHub releases, which is a common and acceptable practice for AUR binary packages; the low severity is due to limited votes and recent upload, not malicious content.
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Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.
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An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt binary from the project's official GitHub releases, which is a common and acceptable practice for AUR binary packages; the low severity is due to limited votes and recent upload, not malicious content.
PKGBUILD
# Maintainer: Joshua Cold <joshzcold@gmail.com>
# riptide-browser-bin: the Linux release tarball (the binary and the CEF runtime).
# The version and checksum are updated at each release.
pkgname=riptide-browser-bin
pkgver=0.4.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Keyboard-driven web browser with vim-like bindings, built on CEF"
arch=('x86_64')
url="https://joshzcold.github.io/riptide/"
license=('GPL-3.0-or-later')
depends=('alsa-lib' 'at-spi2-core' 'cairo' 'dbus' 'expat' 'glib2' 'gtk3' 'hicolor-icon-theme'
'libcups' 'libdrm' 'libxcomposite' 'libxdamage' 'libxkbcommon' 'libxrandr' 'mesa'
'nspr' 'nss' 'pango' 'systemd-libs')
provides=('riptide-browser')
conflicts=('riptide-browser' 'riptide' 'riptide-bin')
options=('!strip' '!debug')
source=("https://github.com/joshzcold/riptide/releases/download/v${pkgver}/riptide-${pkgver}-linux-x86_64.tar.gz")
sha256sums=('675e6a43d43bf08b2ce2410bce29ed669b8e2b72c0aca161eef059bb7b9a3c53')
package() {
cd "riptide-${pkgver}-linux-x86_64" || return 1
install -d "$pkgdir/opt/riptide" "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
cp -a . "$pkgdir/opt/riptide/"
# The sandbox helper must be setuid root when the kernel doesn't allow
# unprivileged user namespaces; Arch allows them, so this is a fallback.
chmod 4755 "$pkgdir/opt/riptide/chrome-sandbox"
ln -s /opt/riptide/riptide "$pkgdir/usr/bin/riptide"
install -Dm644 riptide.desktop "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/riptide.desktop"
install -Dm644 riptide.svg "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/riptide.svg"
install -Dm644 LICENSE "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
}
Scan history
| Scanned at (UTC) | Severity | Rules |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 00:12:50 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-10-20 23:29:39 | Low | 2 |