roam-research

maintainer neko_ayaya · 6 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt Electron binary (.deb) from an S3 bucket, which is an unverifiable source; if compromised, an attacker could silently replace the binary with a malicious one, posing a supply-chain risk.

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:13 "$_pkgname-$pkgver.tgz::https://roam-electron-deploy.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/${_pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt Electron binary (.deb) from an S3 bucket, which is an unverifiable source; if compromised, an attacker could silently replace the binary with a malicious one, posing a supply-chain risk.

PKGBUILD

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      1_pkgname=roam-research
    
      2pkgname=roam-research
    
      3pkgver=0.0.38
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="A note-taking tool for networked thought"
    
      6arch=('any')
    
      7url="https://roamresearch.com/"
    
      8license=('custom')
    
      9depends=()
    
      10# Prebuilt, already-stripped Electron binary — skip debug-symbol packaging and stripping.
    
      11options=(!debug !strip)
    
      12source=(
    
      13	"$_pkgname-$pkgver.tgz::https://roam-electron-deploy.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/${_pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
    
      14	"LICENSE"
    
      15)
    
      16md5sums=('857803e964931235a77db69912d3212f'
    
      17         '34234c4e196ceeaf00e4ee7f29b9fb63')
    
      18
    
      19prepare() {
    
      20	tar -xvf data.tar.xz
    
      21}
    
      22
    
      23package() {
    
      24	cd "$srcdir"
    
      25
    
      26	# Making paths work with a space is error-prone, so let's replace with a simpler kebab-case directory
    
      27	sed -i "s/\/opt\/Roam Research/\/opt\/$_pkgname/" usr/share/applications/roam-research.desktop
    
      28
    
      29	# Install all the things
    
      30	install -d "$pkgdir"/{opt/$_pkgname,usr/share,usr/bin}
    
      31	cp -r opt/Roam\ Research/* -t "$pkgdir"/opt/$_pkgname
    
      32	cp -r usr/share/* -t "$pkgdir"/usr/share
    
      33
    
      34	# Make the desktop icons available
    
      35	# (not sure why they're under 0x0? Where is that used?)
    
      36	install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/hicolor/1024x1024
    
      37	cp -r usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/* -t "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/hicolor/1024x1024
    
      38	install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/share/pixmaps
    
      39	install -D usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/roam-research.png -t "$pkgdir"/usr/share/pixmaps
    
      40
    
      41	# Make the binary available in the $PATH
    
      42	ln -s /opt/${_pkgname}/${_pkgname} "${pkgdir}"/usr/bin/${_pkgname}
    
      43
    
      44	# Add a license that links to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy from https://roamresearch.com
    
      45	install -Dm644 LICENSE "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      46}
    
      47

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2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	MEDIUM	2
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2026-07-15 19:49:33	MEDIUM	2