snapgene

LOW

maintainer Bitals 4 votes scanned 2026-10-17 00:21:55.226236

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from the official SnapGene CDN; while the host is not on a whitelist, it is the project's legitimate distribution infrastructure, and the checksum is verified, making the risk low.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from the official SnapGene CDN; while the host is not on a whitelist, it is the project's legitimate distribution infrastructure, and the checksum is verified, making the risk low.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

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:51 source=("https://cdn.snapgene.com/downloads/SnapGene/"$_pkgver_major".x/"$_pkgver_major_middle"/"$pkgver"/"$pkgname"_"$pkgver"_linux.deb"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Based on snapgene-viewer package by Antony Lee <anntzer dot lee at gmail dot com>
    
      2# Maintainer: Bitals <me at bitals dot xyz>
    
      3# Contributor: Matthijs Tadema <M dot J dot Tadema at gmail dot com>
    
      4# Contributor: Lorenzo Gaifas <brisvag at gmail dot com>
    
      5pkgname=snapgene
    
      6pkgver=8.2.3
    
      7_pkgver_major=$(cut -d '.' -f 1 <<<"$pkgver")
    
      8_pkgver_major_middle=$(cut -d '.' -f 1-2 <<<"$pkgver")
    
      9pkgrel=1
    
      10pkgdesc='Software for plasmid mapping, primer design, and restriction site analysis'
    
      11arch=('x86_64')
    
      12url='https://www.snapgene.com/about'
    
      13license=('custom')
    
      14depends=('qt6-base'
    
      15         'qt6-webchannel'
    
      16         'qt6-5compat'
    
      17         'qt6-declarative'
    
      18         'qt6-positioning'
    
      19         'qt6-svg'
    
      20         'qt6-webengine'
    
      21         'qca-qt6'
    
      22         'libsm'
    
      23         'fontconfig'
    
      24         'nspr'
    
      25         'xz'
    
      26         'expat'
    
      27         'glibc'
    
      28         'gcc-libs'
    
      29         'libc++'
    
      30         'libc++abi'
    
      31         'dbus'
    
      32         'krb5'
    
      33         'libxcb'
    
      34         'libxkbcommon-x11'
    
      35         'xcb-util-image'
    
      36         'xcb-util-wm'
    
      37         'libx11'
    
      38         'libxkbfile'
    
      39         'xcb-util-keysyms'
    
      40         'xcb-util-renderutil'
    
      41         'nss'
    
      42         'hicolor-icon-theme'
    
      43         'libice'
    
      44         'libglvnd'
    
      45         'libxext'
    
      46         'openssl-1.1'
    
      47         'zlib'
    
      48         'openmp'
    
      49)
    
      50# A valid licence is required to use the full version of snapgene
    
      51source=("https://cdn.snapgene.com/downloads/SnapGene/"$_pkgver_major".x/"$_pkgver_major_middle"/"$pkgver"/"$pkgname"_"$pkgver"_linux.deb"
    
      52  "snapgene")
    
      53sha256sums=('170a476198a9128c71c4eaa74cc81371c6aad48752b2407bab8413c5aba07524'
    
      54  '754fdfb4131f8cb8f53560ea19362c3cc90ee14ea7cd68c353a9d3b8d132b993')
    
      55
    
      56prepare() {
    
      57  tar -xf data.tar.xz
    
      58}
    
      59
    
      60package() {
    
      61    cd "$pkgdir"
    
      62    cp -r "$srcdir/opt" "$pkgdir"
    
      63    cp -r "$srcdir/usr" "$pkgdir"
    
      64    mkdir "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      65    cp "$srcdir/snapgene" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/"
    
      66
    
      67    sed -i 's`${INSTALLED_DIR}/snapgene "$@"`QT_QPA_PLATFORM="xcb" ${INSTALLED_DIR}/snapgene "$@"`' "$pkgdir/opt/gslbiotech/snapgene/snapgene.sh"
    
      68    
    
      69    chmod a+x "$pkgdir/usr/bin/snapgene"
    
      70
    
      71    mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
    
      72    ln -s "/opt/gslbiotech/snapgene/resources/licenseAgreement.html" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE.html"
    
      73}
    
      74

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Low	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Low	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Low	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Low	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Low	2
2026-10-12 00:18:51	Low	2
2026-10-11 00:26:05	Low	2
2026-10-10 00:11:52	Low	2
2026-10-09 00:05:33	Low	2
2026-10-08 00:28:03	Low	2
2026-10-07 00:21:34	Low	2
2026-10-06 00:13:36	Low	2
2026-10-05 00:08:03	Low	2
2026-10-04 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-10-03 00:23:04	Low	2
2026-10-02 00:00:32	Low	2
2026-10-01 00:02:06	Low	2
2026-09-30 00:20:07	Low	2
2026-09-29 00:07:46	Low	2
2026-09-28 00:28:32	Low	2