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MrPeacock

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Registered: 2016-03-10

Posts: 17

How to implement a virusscan as a prepairing step in makepkg?

As AUR is potentialy dangerous in flavor of viruses it would be nice if sources are scanned as a preparing step of makepkg.

Any ideas how to implement such a feature?

null

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 398

Re: How to implement a virusscan as a prepairing step in makepkg?

Search for "on-access file scanning" with your favourite virus scanner. Most should support it (e.g. ClamAV or Sophos). They will scan your files when you access them.

MrPeacock

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Registered: 2016-03-10

Posts: 17

Re: How to implement a virusscan as a prepairing step in makepkg?

i dont want to run a on access scanner. For security reason it is better to scan files before installing an infected package.

TheChickenMan

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From: United States

Registered: 2015-07-25

Posts: 354

Re: How to implement a virusscan as a prepairing step in makepkg?

The AUR is [mostly] just source code with scripts to build it into packages. Read the PKGBUILDs and either read the source too or trust the developers.

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x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: How to implement a virusscan as a prepairing step in makepkg?

One option is to write a script which first downloads the sources, then scan the files and finally build the package.

$ makepkg -o
$ antivirus-scan
$ makepkg -ei

Moving to "Creating & Modifying Packages".