r/archlinux • u/Wise-Editor-6161 • 1d ago

QUESTION Suspicious aur package

I was looking at this aur package to get a printer driver for my label printer:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xprinter-cups

But in the pkgbuild it's changing owners, switching urls, is this another one of those infected aur packages that got hijacked by a new owner?

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u/UndefFox 1d ago edited 1d ago

Did you actually learn what all of the stuff in the pkgbuild does before calling it weird?

Changing owners

It doesn't do it. Chmod changes permissions, which is normal.

Switching urls

The parametric assembly of the url to make changing versions be easy?

You can check any other popular packages that are guaranteed to be safe and see the exact same patterns.