I haven’t heard a peep about the security status of AUR since the headlines about malware injections into thousands of packages. I’ve ensured that none of my installed software is affected by the attack (to the best of my ability), but I’ve held off on my regular yay -Syu since then. What has you all done to keep your machine updated but clean?
And is there any update from AUR maintainers that the situation is under control? Most of my installed AUR packages simply don’t exist in the official Arch repos, so if not I’d have to look for other sources.
What is it you look for in the diffs more specifically?
The first thing to check is that the software is being downloaded from the correct place. Look for additional downloads and make sure they’re legit. Look for obfuscated code. If you’re not sure, ask.
Not that it is a replacement to doing it manually, but if I were to write a script to look at “important” pieces, what should I be grepping?
Anything that could compromise your security, privacy, anonymity or safety.