star-cups-driver

maintainer kozika · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package requires manual download of source from the project's official URL, which is a normal practice for proprietary drivers; the source is verified by a checksum and builds the driver locally, posing no remote code execution or supply-chain risk.

Triggered rules

LOW Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

LOW AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 90%): The package requires manual download of source from the project's official URL, which is a normal practice for proprietary drivers; the source is verified by a checksum and builds the driver locally, posing no remote code execution or supply-chain risk.

PKGBUILD

      1# Maintainer: Kozika <kozikakkozika+aur at gmail dot com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=star-cups-driver
    
      4pkgver=3.17.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc='Star Micronics CUPS printer drivers'
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url='https://starmicronics.com/support/download/cups-driver-for-linux/'
    
      9license=('GPL-2.0-or-later' 'custom:Star')
    
      10depends=('cups')
    
      11
    
      12DLAGENTS+=(
    
      13  "manual::/usr/bin/echo Please download foobar manually from ${url} and place it next to the PKGBUILD"
    
      14)
    
      15
    
      16source=("manual://Star_CUPS_Driver-${pkgver}_linux.tar.gz")
    
      17sha256sums=('1078288f8e48468a31c6ebef635fe17f7b9ab11f9ff3b2f68299f85b52df29a9')
    
      18
    
      19prepare() {
    
      20  tar -xzf "${srcdir}/Star_CUPS_Driver-${pkgver}_linux/SourceCode/Star_CUPS_Driver-src-${pkgver}.tar.gz" -C "${srcdir}"
    
      21}
    
      22
    
      23build() {
    
      24  cd "${srcdir}/Star_CUPS_Driver"
    
      25  make CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}"
    
      26}
    
      27
    
      28package() {
    
      29  cd "${srcdir}/Star_CUPS_Driver"
    
      30
    
      31  install -Dm755 install/rastertostar "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertostar"
    
      32  install -Dm755 install/rastertostarlm "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertostarlm"
    
      33  install -Dm755 install/rastertostarm "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertostarm"
    
      34  install -Dm644 install/*.ppd -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/cups/model/star"
    
      35
    
      36  install -Dm644 readme.txt "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/readme.txt"
    
      37  install -Dm644 SoftwareLicenseAgreement.pdf "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/SoftwareLicenseAgreement.pdf"
    
      38  install -Dm644 SoftwareLicenseAgreementAppendix.pdf "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/SoftwareLicenseAgreementAppendix.pdf"
    
      39}
    
      40

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 05:10:22	LOW	2