Arch Linux: The AUR malicious packages incident continues to happen (www.xda-developers.com)

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CachyOS provides many packages that are not available in the official Arch repo. But no matter what, I still prefer vanilla arch over anything else... What about you?

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[-] Dadifer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

So what, can we trust the debian repo? Where do we get software from?

[-] Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Debian/Arch official repos fetch software directly from the distro maintainers, while AUR packages can be uploaded by anyone. So theoretically, Debian/Arch repos are considered more secure than AUR packages. Even Flatpaks are also more secure than AUR packages.

[-] Dadifer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

How can previously installed AUR packages be compromised, though?

[-] Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

When the upstream URL gets updated with the malicious uploaders new URL. There is no warning shown in the process; the only way to check it is to inspect the PKGBUILD manually.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

The Debian repo, yeah. Generally.

AUR is particularly risky because anyone can submit software.

But if you heavily rely on 3rd party Debian repos, check out the maintainers, as their security isn’t necessarily on par with the official repo.

…And I can help but think that tons of users do this on Debian/Fedora for non FOSS packages, like Nvidia drivers, certain parts of ffmpeg and such.

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