shroomie-git

LOW

maintainer snowancestor 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD pulls pexpect from PyPI via pip during build(), but this is a well-known, widely-used Python package on the official PyPI registry, not an unofficial or personal host. The real issue is that it's redundant and sloppy: python-pexpect is already listed as a runtime dependency (which means it's available from the official Arch repos), so the pip install is unnecessary and installs a duplicate copy into the package. There's no checksum on the pip-installed package, which is mildly concerning from a supply-chain hygiene standpoint, but PyPI is a standard, trusted ecosystem mirror for Python packages. This is a packaging quality issue (redundant pip install of an already-declared dependency, no hash pinning) rather than a genuine supply-chain threat. The source is a git repo with SKIP checksum, which is standard for -git packages. Overall: sloppy packaging, not a security risk.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 85%): The PKGBUILD pulls pexpect from PyPI via pip during build(), but this is a well-known, widely-used Python package on the official PyPI registry, not an unofficial or personal host. The real issue is that it's redundant and sloppy: python-pexpect is already listed as a runtime dependency (which means it's available from the official Arch repos), so the pip install is unnecessary and installs a duplicate copy into the package. There's no checksum on the pip-installed package, which is mildly concerning from a supply-chain hygiene standpoint, but PyPI is a standard, trusted ecosystem mirror for Python packages. This is a packaging quality issue (redundant pip install of an already-declared dependency, no hash pinning) rather than a genuine supply-chain threat. The source is a git repo with SKIP checksum, which is standard for -git packages. Overall: sloppy packaging, not a security risk.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

Medium pip install of an external package pip_install_external

`pip install <package>` fetches an unpinned package from PyPI at build time, outside source=() and makepkg's checksums.

PKGBUILD:22 python -m pip install --no-deps --ignore-installed --target="${srcdir}/python-packages" pexpect>=4.9.0

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: snow-arc
    
      2pkgname=shroomie-git
    
      3pkgver=r22.f7545c4
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="A friendly AUR package manager with a simple GUI"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://github.com/snow-arc/shroomie"
    
      8license=('MIT')
    
      9depends=('python>=3.8' 'python-pip' 'python-pyqt6' 'python-pexpect' 'git' 'base-devel')
    
      10makedepends=('python-setuptools' 'python-wheel')
    
      11source=("git+${url}.git")
    
      12sha256sums=('SKIP')
    
      13
    
      14pkgver() {
    
      15    cd "${srcdir}/shroomie"
    
      16    printf "r%s.%s" "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
    
      17}
    
      18build() {
    
      19    cd "${srcdir}/shroomie"
    
      20    # Create temporary directory for Python packages
    
      21    mkdir -p "${srcdir}/python-packages"
    
      22    python -m pip install --no-deps --ignore-installed --target="${srcdir}/python-packages" pexpect>=4.9.0
    
      23}
    
      24
    
      25package() {
    
      26    cd "${srcdir}/shroomie"
    
      27    
    
      28    # Create directories
    
      29    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      30    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/shroomie"
    
      31    
    
      32    # Copy Python packages from build
    
      33    cp -r "${srcdir}/python-packages"/* "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/shroomie/"
    
      34    
    
      35    # Copy project files
    
      36    cp -r components config models resources services ui utils "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/shroomie/"
    
      37    install -Dm755 main.py "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/shroomie/"
    
      38    install -Dm644 README.md "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/shroomie/README.md"
    
      39    install -Dm644 "${startdir}/requirements.txt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/shroomie/requirements.txt"
    
      40    
    
      41    # Create launcher script with python3
    
      42    cat > "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/shroomie" << EOF
    
      43#!/bin/sh
    
      44exec python3 /usr/lib/shroomie/main.py "\$@"
    
      45EOF
    
      46    chmod 755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/shroomie"
    
      47}
    
      48

Scan history

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2026-09-17 00:27:14	Low	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Low	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Low	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Low	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Low	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Low	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2