xinghuo-note-bin

maintainer zxp19821005 · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged This PKGBUILD installs a prebuilt binary extracted from a .deb file downloaded from gitee.com (a Chinese code hosting platform), which is the upstream project's own release page (gitee.com/xinghuowangluo/note/releases). The binary is not built from source and is executed directly. While gitee.com is a legitimate hosting platform (similar to GitHub) and the URL points to the project's own release artifacts with a pinned sha256sum, the supply-chain risk is real: the binary is a closed prebuilt executable from a personal/small project on a third-party platform with no independent verification mechanism beyond the checksum. The sha256sum provides integrity but not authenticity — if the release was replaced at the same tag, the checksum would catch it, but the maintainer must keep it updated. This is a standard -bin AUR pattern but with a non-Western hosting platform and an unauditable binary, which warrants medium severity rather than clean.

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:17 "LICENSE-${pkgver}::https://gitee.com/xinghuowangluo/note/blob/v${pkgver}/LICENSE"

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): This PKGBUILD installs a prebuilt binary extracted from a .deb file downloaded from gitee.com (a Chinese code hosting platform), which is the upstream project's own release page (gitee.com/xinghuowangluo/note/releases). The binary is not built from source and is executed directly. While gitee.com is a legitimate hosting platform (similar to GitHub) and the URL points to the project's own release artifacts with a pinned sha256sum, the supply-chain risk is real: the binary is a closed prebuilt executable from a personal/small project on a third-party platform with no independent verification mechanism beyond the checksum. The sha256sum provides integrity but not authenticity — if the release was replaced at the same tag, the checksum would catch it, but the maintainer must keep it updated. This is a standard -bin AUR pattern but with a non-Western hosting platform and an unauditable binary, which warrants medium severity rather than clean.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: zxp19821005 <zxp19821005 at 163 dot com>
    
      2pkgname=xinghuo-note-bin
    
      3_debname=com.gitee.xinghuo.note
    
      4pkgver=1.6.4
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Note Master, a convenient note-taking tool for recording temporary information, reminders, or to-do tasks on the desktop. Beautiful interface, small size, and fast speed.(Prebuilt version)"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://gitee.com/xinghuowangluo/note"
    
      9license=('MulanPSL-2.0')
    
      10provides=("${pkgname%-bin}=${pkgver}")
    
      11conflicts=("${pkgname%-bin}")
    
      12depends=(
    
      13    'qt6-base'
    
      14)
    
      15source=(
    
      16    "${pkgname%-bin}-${pkgver}.deb::${url}/releases/download/v${pkgver}/${_debname}_${pkgver}-20241130_amd64_Deepin23.deb"
    
      17    "LICENSE-${pkgver}::https://gitee.com/xinghuowangluo/note/blob/v${pkgver}/LICENSE"
    
      18)
    
      19sha256sums=('4755a3a36973a35fef5fe9450a622c7dd29b71218ed1aa8cf8b346b84a5ef319'
    
      20            '8a9cc05fde1a7b1ea22e75ac44679619609d332cb1377dc73aaa57f68bdcc80d')
    
      21prepare() {
    
      22    bsdtar -xf "${srcdir}/data."*
    
      23    sed -i -e "
    
      24        s/Name=note/Name=Xinghuo Note/g
    
      25        s/\/opt\/apps\/${_debname}\/bin\/note/${pkgname%-bin}/g
    
      26        s/\/opt\/apps\/${_debname}\/icon\/note.png/${pkgname%-bin}/g
    
      27        s/Categories=Application/Categories=Utility;/g
    
      28    " "${srcdir}/usr/share/applications/note.desktop"
    
      29}
    
      30package() {
    
      31    install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/opt/apps/${_debname}/bin/note" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname%-bin}"
    
      32    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/opt/apps/${_debname}/icon/note.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/${pkgname%-bin}.png"
    
      33    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/usr/share/applications/note.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${pkgname%-bin}.desktop"
    
      34    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/LICENSE-${pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      35}

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