whoogle

maintainer dr460nf1r3 · 6 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
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Why flagged The pip install is part of building the project from its own source code (downloaded from the official GitHub repository), which is a normal and expected step in the build process for Python applications.

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 pip install is part of building the project from its own source code (downloaded from the official GitHub repository), which is a normal and expected step in the build process for Python applications.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)
MEDIUM pip install of an external package pip_install_external

`pip install <package>` fetches an unpinned package from PyPI at build time, outside source=() and makepkg's checksums.

  • PKGBUILD:35 pip install -r requirements.txt

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: dr460nf1r3 <dr460nf1r3 at garudalinux dot org>
2
3pkgname=whoogle
4pkgver="1.2.4"
5pkgrel=2
6pkgdesc='A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine'
7arch=(x86_64 aarch64)
8url="https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search"
9license=(MIT)
10depends=(python)
11makedepends=(python python-pip)
12optdepends=('tor: use the TOR network to perform searches')
13conflicts=($pkgname-git)
14backup=('etc/default/whoogle')
15source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/archive/refs/tags/v$pkgver.tar.gz"
16 $pkgname
17 $pkgname.conf
18 $pkgname.service)
19sha256sums=('66db11d022f91c5a68c1690aed4c3c2663cbc9f524e6ce385ce0feeaca82a7ff'
20 'e30ff5ecef199ce2a37b097709461c51ca07bdbbcc4609db74203834b62c60b1'
21 '51cda92f3ad2166eb2cb63ff80561f48b39688a57b66291d2eee5e1c7fcd8ee3'
22 'ab6256f3fdaac3ba58ddbb39bb5c24bde53312f0584ae4ed4ae74bc7752a07f4')
23install=$pkgname.install
24
25prepare() {
26 mv $pkgname-search-$pkgver $pkgname-search
27}
28
29build() {
30 # Following official instructions
31 cd $pkgname-search
32 python3 -m venv venv
33 source venv/bin/activate
34
35 pip install -r requirements.txt
36
37 # Cleanup unsed files
38 _cleanup=(docs test .dockerignore .gitignore .replit docker-compose.yml Dockerfile heroku.yml MANIFEST.in README.md requirements.txt)
39 for i in "${_cleanup[@]}"; do
40 rm -r "$i"
41 done
42}
43
44package() {
45 install -m0644 -D "$srcdir/whoogle" "$pkgdir/etc/default/whoogle"
46 install -m0644 -D "$srcdir/whoogle.conf" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/sysusers.d/whoogle.conf"
47 install -m0644 -D "$srcdir/whoogle.service" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/whoogle.service"
48 install -Dm0644 "$srcdir/$pkgname-search/LICENSE" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
49 install -dm0755 "$pkgdir/opt/whoogle-search"
50 cp -r "$srcdir/whoogle-search/" "$pkgdir/opt/"
51}
52

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