sporemodder-fx-bin

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The package downloads a prebuilt JAR from the project's official GitHub releases, which is normal for AUR packages; the flagged low votes and recent upload are metadata concerns, not security risks, and no malicious behavior or unverifiable remote code execution is present.

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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 JAR from the project's official GitHub releases, which is normal for AUR packages; the flagged low votes and recent upload are metadata concerns, not security risks, and no malicious behavior or unverifiable remote code execution is present.

PKGBUILD

1# Maintainer: Yakov Till <yakov.till@gmail.com>
2
3pkgname=sporemodder-fx-bin
4pkgver=2.2.27
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="Spore data modding tool: unpack, edit and repack game packages with a JavaFX editor or the smfx CLI (prebuilt jar)"
7arch=('x86_64')
8url="https://github.com/Spore-Community/SporeModder-FX"
9license=('GPL-3.0-or-later')
10# The jar bundles JavaFX 17 with its Linux natives; these are their direct NEEDED libraries.
11depends=('java-runtime>=11' 'gtk3' 'cairo' 'gdk-pixbuf2' 'glib2' 'libx11' 'libxtst'
12 'libglvnd' 'freetype2' 'pango')
13optdepends=('meld: compare a mod file against its original from the editor'
14 'git: publish mod bundles to GitHub from the editor')
15makedepends=('zip')
16provides=("${pkgname%-bin}")
17conflicts=("${pkgname%-bin}")
18options=('!debug')
19install="${pkgname}.install"
20
21_name=${pkgname%-bin}
22_release_dir="SporeModder FX"
23source=("${_name}-${pkgver}.zip::${url}/releases/download/v${pkgver}/SporeModder.FX.zip"
24 "${_name}"
25 "${_name}.desktop"
26 'winmerge-shim')
27sha256sums=('bd7908996b8022cd7452edefbdb2d62dbbe626d1e22962e83fe30def215e6669'
28 'b02822a931fc84598f0f8152bce10250890e99a26a5a81a810230827a25e7415'
29 'd3d22def1761610a736a5fb7ffd5d85f2b17a95f810574bccce69b1eec55e107'
30 '8d475e055bdef5b9eb18f13eab13b8ae498e284e00ec4f802aa0e8c32c281154')
31
32latestver() {
33 curl -fsSL "https://api.github.com/repos/Spore-Community/SporeModder-FX/releases/latest" |
34 jq -r '.tag_name // empty' | sed 's/^v//'
35}
36
37prepare() {
38 cd "${_release_dir}"
39 # The jar ships JavaFX natives for Windows, macOS and both GTK generations; the GTK 3
40 # Linux set is the one the runtime loads on Arch.
41 zip -q -d SporeModderFX.jar '*.dll' '*.dylib' libglassgtk2.so
42 # advect.py is a developer plotting script (matplotlib) with no role at runtime
43 rm -r SporeModderFX.exe smfx.exe smfx.sh WinMerge advect.py
44 # The zip nests the styles matching the release tag under Styles/Styles beside a stale
45 # top-level copy, which the editor would additionally list as a bogus "Styles" theme.
46 rm -r Styles/Default Styles/Dark
47 mv Styles/Styles/* Styles/
48 rmdir Styles/Styles
49}
50
51package() {
52 local share="${pkgdir}/usr/share/${_name}"
53
54 install -d "${share}"
55 cp -r --no-preserve=ownership,mode "${_release_dir}"/. "${share}/"
56 install -Dm755 winmerge-shim "${share}/WinMerge/WinMergeU.exe"
57
58 install -Dm755 "${_name}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_name}"
59 ln -s "${_name}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/smfx"
60
61 install -Dm644 "${_name}.desktop" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
62 install -Dm644 "${_release_dir}/Styles/Default/program-icon.png" \
63 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/${_name}.png"
64}
65

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