xmind2md

maintainer chirag297 · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The PKGBUILD sources from the official GitHub repository of the maintainer (tagged release tarball), which is a legitimate upstream source. The `pip install xmindparser` happens at runtime (inside a user-owned virtualenv under $HOME), not during the build/install phase, so it does not affect the system package installation. This is a sloppy packaging pattern (the dependency should be declared as a proper AUR/pacman dependency like `python-xmindparser` rather than fetched via pip at runtime), but it is not a build-time supply-chain risk. The sha256sums='SKIP' is also sloppy but not malicious. The overall concern is low: no executed binaries from unofficial hosts, no obfuscation, no system-level pip install. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is a false positive — the pip call is a runtime user-space action, not a package-installation-time code execution concern.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 82%): The PKGBUILD sources from the official GitHub repository of the maintainer (tagged release tarball), which is a legitimate upstream source. The `pip install xmindparser` happens at runtime (inside a user-owned virtualenv under $HOME), not during the build/install phase, so it does not affect the system package installation. This is a sloppy packaging pattern (the dependency should be declared as a proper AUR/pacman dependency like `python-xmindparser` rather than fetched via pip at runtime), but it is not a build-time supply-chain risk. The sha256sums='SKIP' is also sloppy but not malicious. The overall concern is low: no executed binaries from unofficial hosts, no obfuscation, no system-level pip install. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is a false positive — the pip call is a runtime user-space action, not a package-installation-time code execution concern.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:38 pip install xmindparser

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Chirag Bharambe <chirag@bharambe.dev>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=xmind2md
    
      4pkgver=1.0.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="A tool to convert XMind files to Markdown format"
    
      7arch=('any')
    
      8url="https://github.com/chiragbharambe/xmind2md"
    
      9license=('MIT')
    
      10depends=('python')
    
      11makedepends=('python-pip' 'python-virtualenv')
    
      12
    
      13source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/chiragbharambe/$pkgname/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz")
    
      14sha256sums=('SKIP')
    
      15
    
      16package() {
    
      17    cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      18
    
      19    # Create necessary directories
    
      20    install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      21    install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/$pkgname"
    
      22    install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/$pkgname"
    
      23
    
      24    # Install Python script
    
      25    install -Dm755 xmind_converter.py "$pkgdir/usr/lib/$pkgname/xmind_converter.py"
    
      26
    
      27    # Create setup script
    
      28    cat > "$pkgdir/usr/lib/$pkgname/setup.sh" << 'EOF'
    
      29#!/bin/bash
    
      30
    
      31VENV_PATH="$HOME/.local/share/xmind2md/venv"
    
      32
    
      33# Create virtual environment if it doesn't exist
    
      34if [ ! -d "$VENV_PATH" ]; then
    
      35    mkdir -p "$HOME/.local/share/xmind2md"
    
      36    python -m venv "$VENV_PATH"
    
      37    source "$VENV_PATH/bin/activate"
    
      38    pip install xmindparser
    
      39    deactivate
    
      40fi
    
      41
    
      42echo "Setup complete! xmind2md is ready to use."
    
      43EOF
    
      44    chmod 755 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/$pkgname/setup.sh"
    
      45
    
      46    # Create main executable
    
      47    cat > "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$pkgname" << 'EOF'
    
      48#!/bin/bash
    
      49
    
      50VENV_PATH="$HOME/.local/share/xmind2md/venv"
    
      51
    
      52# Check if venv exists, if not run setup
    
      53if [ ! -d "$VENV_PATH" ]; then
    
      54    /usr/lib/xmind2md/setup.sh
    
      55fi
    
      56
    
      57# Activate venv and run converter
    
      58source "$VENV_PATH/bin/activate"
    
      59python /usr/lib/xmind2md/xmind_converter.py "$@"
    
      60deactivate
    
      61EOF
    
      62    chmod 755 "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$pkgname"
    
      63
    
      64    # Install license and readme
    
      65    install -Dm644 LICENSE "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      66    install -Dm644 README.md "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname/README.md"
    
      67}
    
      68

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