rstudio-desktop-daily-bin

maintainer chendaniely · 7 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
MEDIUM
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Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt .deb binary from an unofficial AWS S3 bucket URL not directly tied to RStudio's official release infrastructure, creating a supply-chain risk if the host were compromised or the URL repurposed.

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:29 source_x86_64=("https://s3.amazonaws.com/rstudio-ide-build/electron/jammy/amd64/rstudio-${pkgver_url}-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 .deb binary from an unofficial AWS S3 bucket URL not directly tied to RStudio's official release infrastructure, creating a supply-chain risk if the host were compromised or the URL repurposed.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Submitter: chendaniely
2#
3# Maintainer: chendaniely <chendaniely@gmail.com>
4# code adapted from: Meow < a.li.devtty at gmail dot com >
5#
6# Previous maintainer(s)
7# Maintainer: pat-s <patrick.schratz@gmail.com>
8#######################
9
10pkgname=rstudio-desktop-daily-bin
11pkgver=2026.08.0.daily.170
12pkgver_url=2026.08.0-daily-170
13pkgrel=2
14pkgdesc="An integrated development environment (IDE) for R (binary version from RStudio official repository)"
15arch=('x86_64')
16license=('GPL')
17url="http://www.rstudio.org/"
18depends=('r' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'libxcomposite' 'libxslt' 'shared-mime-info' 'libxrandr' 'openssl' 'postgresql-libs')
19#makedepends=('patchelf')
20optdepends=(
21 'pandoc: markdown support'
22 'x11-ssh-askpass: password dialog for ssh'
23)
24conflicts=('rstudio-desktop' 'rstudio-desktop-git' 'rstudio-desktop-bin' 'rstudio-desktop-preview-bin')
25provides=("rstudio-desktop-daily=${pkgver}")
26options=(!strip)
27
28sha256sums_x86_64=('35691bfe22a95359102155c6e8c74f6852a213025dafa916fca5c46dca230bc5')
29source_x86_64=("https://s3.amazonaws.com/rstudio-ide-build/electron/jammy/amd64/rstudio-${pkgver_url}-amd64.deb")
30
31package() {
32
33 shopt -s extglob
34
35 msg "Converting debian package..."
36
37 ar x rstudio-${pkgver_url}-amd64.deb
38
39 cd "$srcdir"
40 tar Jxf data.tar.xz -C "$pkgdir"
41 install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
42
43 cd "$pkgdir/usr/lib/rstudio/resources/app/bin/quarto/bin/"
44 ln -sf /usr/bin/pandoc ./pandoc
45 #ln -sf /usr/bin/pandoc-citeproc ./
46
47 find "$pkgdir/usr" -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755
48 find "$pkgdir/usr" -type f -name '*.so.*' -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644
49
50 cd "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
51 echo '#!/bin/sh
52export QT_DIR=/usr/lib/rstudio/bin
53export QT_PLUGIN_PATH=$QT_DIR/plugins
54export QT_QPA_PLATFORM_PLUGIN_PATH=$QT_PLUGIN_PATH/platforms
55export KDEDIRS=/usr
56exec /usr/lib/rstudio/rstudio "$@"
57' > "$pkgdir/usr/bin/rstudio-daily-bin"
58 chmod 755 "$pkgdir/usr/bin/rstudio-daily-bin"
59
60 sed -i 's|/usr/lib/rstudio/rstudio|/usr/bin/rstudio-daily-bin|' "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/rstudio.desktop"
61}
62

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-01 00:11
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
#######################
pkgname=rstudio-desktop-daily-bin
-pkgver=2026.07.0.daily.138
-pkgver_url=2026.07.0-daily-138
+pkgver=2026.08.0.daily.170
+pkgver_url=2026.08.0-daily-170
pkgrel=2
pkgdesc="An integrated development environment (IDE) for R (binary version from RStudio official repository)"
arch=('x86_64')
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
provides=("rstudio-desktop-daily=${pkgver}")
options=(!strip)
-sha256sums_x86_64=('8f02d41ce1e71e802c9860f482b677fc00415b4731907147be36bde003a18e09')
+sha256sums_x86_64=('35691bfe22a95359102155c6e8c74f6852a213025dafa916fca5c46dca230bc5')
source_x86_64=("https://s3.amazonaws.com/rstudio-ide-build/electron/jammy/amd64/rstudio-${pkgver_url}-amd64.deb")
package() {

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