tonelib-metal-bin

maintainer orphaned · 3 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from tonelib.net (the official vendor website matching the url= field), extracts it, and installs it directly. This is a standard pattern for proprietary software packaged as *-bin in the AUR. The host is the official vendor site, not a personal or unofficial mirror, so the supply-chain risk is no worse than any other proprietary binary package. The sha256sum is pinned, providing integrity verification. The main residual concern is that the URL points to a floating 'latest' path (ToneLib-Metal-amd64.deb without a version in the path), meaning the checksum could silently diverge from the declared pkgver if the vendor updates the file — a real but common medium-level packaging issue for binary AUR packages. No obfuscation, no exfiltration, no piracy concerns.

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:13 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://www.tonelib.net/download/ToneLib-Metal-amd64.deb")

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The package downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from tonelib.net (the official vendor website matching the url= field), extracts it, and installs it directly. This is a standard pattern for proprietary software packaged as *-bin in the AUR. The host is the official vendor site, not a personal or unofficial mirror, so the supply-chain risk is no worse than any other proprietary binary package. The sha256sum is pinned, providing integrity verification. The main residual concern is that the URL points to a floating 'latest' path (ToneLib-Metal-amd64.deb without a version in the path), meaning the checksum could silently diverge from the declared pkgver if the vendor updates the file — a real but common medium-level packaging issue for binary AUR packages. No obfuscation, no exfiltration, no piracy concerns.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Alexandre Bancel <gimmeapill at gmail dot com>
    
      2# Contributor: Oliver Friedrich <olifriedrich at gmail dot com>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname='tonelib-metal-bin'
    
      5pkgver=1.4.0
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="ToneLib Metal – Guitar amp simulator targeted at metal players"
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9license=('custom')
    
      10url="https://tonelib.net/tonelib-metal"
    
      11depends=('alsa-lib' 'desktop-file-utils' 'freetype2' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'mesa')
    
      12optdepends=('jack: JACK output')
    
      13source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://www.tonelib.net/download/ToneLib-Metal-amd64.deb")
    
      14sha256sums=('1f5f5950e148ee9ad024fa3d3565801d23b0a59e1121ba512477d05630e9fd50')
    
      15
    
      16
    
      17package () {
    
      18    tar xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      19    install -D -m644 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/tonelib-metal/copyright" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      20}
    
      21
    
      22post_install() {
    
      23	gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor
    
      24	update-desktop-database -q
    
      25}
    
      26
    
      27post_remove() {
    
      28	gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor
    
      29	update-desktop-database -q
    
      30}
    
      31
    
      32

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	MEDIUM	2