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Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

As an user of the AUR, this is devastating news to me. I am also guilty of accepting updates without reading the latest changes, even if yay asks me if I want to. This is a reminder to everyone to only install from the AUR for absolutely necessary stuff only, and only if you trust the maintainer. And to at least have a look if something suspicious is going in with the recent changes in the package recipe. AND to read in the communities and news.

I don't understand why there still no official announcement as a warning from the Archlinux team at https://archlinux.org/news/ . Is there a different place for security news specifically about the AUR to subscribe to?

[–] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

The fact that the Arch maintainers seem to prefer Reddit over their own fucking news channel is what made me switch from Arch years ago. I got sick of upstream breaking changes fucking my system because they wouldn't notify people through official channels, only to find it later of /r/archlinux 🙄🙄🙄

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

since the 2022 grub incident, Arch has done a great job at notifying the news channel when "manual intervention required" AFAIK, and I don't remember any instances of Arch maintainers only notifying Reddit (and I don't think they notified Reddit for the grub incident either lol).

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 41 minutes ago

It's been 4 years already? WTF?

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

the arch news channel is for breaking changes to arch pacakges (so not the AUR) only. maybe you could subscribe to aur-general@lists.archlinux.org.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I was hoping to subscribe with RSS. Not sure how to subscribe there.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 hour ago

it's a mailing list, so heads up, if you subscribe you're also gonna get other discussion like the forums.

https://lists.archlinux.org/mailman3/lists/aur-general.lists.archlinux.org/