vulkan-man-pages

LOW

maintainer araidameru 4 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The npm install commands fetch two specific, legitimate JavaScript packages (escape-string-regexp and he) required for building the Vulkan documentation; these are not undeclared external packages but necessary build dependencies, and the package otherwise builds from official source with verified checksums.

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-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The npm install commands fetch two specific, legitimate JavaScript packages (escape-string-regexp and he) required for building the Vulkan documentation; these are not undeclared external packages but necessary build dependencies, and the package otherwise builds from official source with verified checksums.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

Medium npm/yarn/pnpm install of an undeclared external package npm_install_external

Runs `npm/yarn/pnpm install <package>` for a package not in source=(), pulling unpinned, unreviewed code at build time. Severity downgraded: the package declares/looks like a Node.js consumer, where build-time installs are expected.

PKGBUILD:29 npm install escape-string-regexp@4.0.0
PKGBUILD:30 npm install he

PKGBUILD

2 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: araidameru <x>
    
      2# Contributor: otreblan <otreblain@gmail.com>
    
      3# Contributor: Bohdan Mart <mart.bogdan at gmail>
    
      4# Modified PKGBUILD from vulkan-html-docs
    
      5
    
      6pkgname="vulkan-man-pages"
    
      7pkgver=1.4.309
    
      8pkgrel=5
    
      9pkgdesc="Vulkan man pages as manpages"
    
      10arch=("any")
    
      11url="https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs"
    
      12license=('custom')
    
      13makedepends=(
    
      14	"asciidoctor"
    
      15	"cmake"
    
      16	"ghostscript"
    
      17	"git"
    
      18	"nodejs"
    
      19	"npm"
    
      20	"python-pyparsing"
    
      21	"python3"
    
      22	"source-highlight"
    
      23)
    
      24source=("$url/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz" "manpage.patch")
    
      25sha256sums=('927988494d09d3227fc6f70c86ffbfc0bbd5776ca535fd9f1e2a3d30f5c1b1e7'
    
      26            '4e7201a5038cd88c03f48f3050702f3bcb1ca9acc974f5aa179a3b704d58b2fc')
    
      27
    
      28prepare() {
    
      29	npm install escape-string-regexp@4.0.0
    
      30	npm install he
    
      31	cd "$srcdir"
    
      32
    
      33	mv ${url##*/}-$pkgver $pkgname-$pkgver
    
      34
    
      35	patch --strip=1 < ../manpage.patch
    
      36
    
      37	cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      38
    
      39	local _ESC="?\\\\u001b"
    
      40	local _NL="\"\\\\n\""
    
      41
    
      42	sed -i "s/'<code>' + \(.*\) + '<\/code>'/ $_ESC + '\\\\#' + $_NL + $_ESC + \".IR \" + \1 + $_NL/" config/spec-macros/extension.rb
    
      43	sed -i "s/'<strong .*>' + \(.*\) + '<\/strong>'/ $_ESC + '\\\\#' + $_NL + $_ESC + \".B \" + \1 + $_NL/" config/spec-macros/extension.rb
    
      44	sed -i "s/Inline.new(.*html.*)/ $_ESC + '\\\\#' + $_NL + $_ESC + \".BR \" + target + ' (3)' + $_NL/" config/spec-macros/extension.rb
    
      45}
    
      46
    
      47build() {
    
      48	cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      49
    
      50	./makeAllExts -j html manhtmlpages styleguide registry
    
      51}
    
      52
    
      53package() {
    
      54	cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      55
    
      56	install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man3"
    
      57	install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
    
      58
    
      59	mv -v gen/out/man/html/* "$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man3"
    
      60
    
      61	find "$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man3" -name "*.3.gz" -exec gzip -d {} \+
    
      62	find "$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man3" -name "*.3" -exec sed -i 's/\(.\)\\#/\1\n\\#/' {} \+
    
      63	find "$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man3" -name "*.3" -exec sed -i 's/"C SPECIFICATION"/SYNOPSIS/' {} \+
    
      64	find "$pkgdir/usr/share/man/man3" -name "*.3" -exec gzip {} \+
    
      65
    
      66	install -m644 config/copyright-ccby.adoc "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/copyright-ccby.adoc"
    
      67	install -m644 config/copyright-spec.adoc "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/copyright-spec.adoc"
    
      68}
    
      69

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Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
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