[GH-ISSUE #2207] [Doubt]: AUR prebuilt package trustable ? #758

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opened 2026-02-27 21:07:58 +03:00 by kerem · 1 comment

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2026-02-27 21:07:58 +03:00

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Originally created by @Greatz08 on GitHub (Jan 22, 2025).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/shadps4-emu/shadPS4/issues/2207

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I have searched for a similar issue in this repository and did not find one.

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Today i got to know about this project so i tried searching in aur arch repo and these many i could find :

But when i tried to install it's -git variant which generally build package from official source but i couldn't see any pkgbuild file for it to verify if it is building from this original source so my question is that - Is that aur package maintained by shadps4 dev team or by any random guy ?

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Trust issues so just wanted to confirm about those aur packages.

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Originally created by @Greatz08 on GitHub (Jan 22, 2025). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/shadps4-emu/shadPS4/issues/2207 ### Checklist - [x] I have searched for a similar issue in this repository and did not find one. ### Description Today i got to know about this project so i tried searching in aur arch repo and these many i could find : ![Image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a2b00037-be2e-43b8-8433-fed5c93357c9) But when i tried to install it's -git variant which generally build package from official source but i couldn't see any pkgbuild file for it to verify if it is building from this original source so my question is that - Is that aur package maintained by shadps4 dev team or by any random guy ? ### Reason Trust issues so just wanted to confirm about those aur packages. ### Examples _No response_

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2026-02-27 21:07:59 +03:00

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2026-02-27 21:07:59 +03:00

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@tomboylover93 commented on GitHub (Jan 22, 2025):

Not sure about the Chaotic AUR package. The regular AUR package is not maintained by any of the developers, but by a contributor.

There are these lines in the PKGBUILD:

source=(
	"$_pkgname::git+https://github.com/shadps4-emu/shadPS4.git"
	"$_pkgname-discord-rpc::git+https://github.com/shadps4-emu/ext-discord-rpc.git"
	"$_pkgname-imgui::git+https://github.com/shadps4-emu/ext-imgui.git"
	"$_pkgname-libatrac9::git+https://github.com/shadps4-emu/ext-LibAtrac9.git"
	"$_pkgname-sirit::git+https://github.com/shadps4-emu/sirit.git"
	"$_pkgname-tracy::git+https://github.com/shadps4-emu/tracy.git"
	"zydis::git+https://github.com/zyantific/zydis.git"
)

which point to this GitHub repository and the submodules required to build shadPS4 from source.

So:

No, it is not official;
Yes, it does use the "original source".

@tomboylover93 commented on GitHub (Jan 22, 2025): Not sure about the Chaotic AUR package. The regular AUR package is not maintained by any of the developers, but by a contributor. There are these lines in the PKGBUILD: ``` source=( "$_pkgname::git+https://github.com/shadps4-emu/shadPS4.git" "$_pkgname-discord-rpc::git+https://github.com/shadps4-emu/ext-discord-rpc.git" "$_pkgname-imgui::git+https://github.com/shadps4-emu/ext-imgui.git" "$_pkgname-libatrac9::git+https://github.com/shadps4-emu/ext-LibAtrac9.git" "$_pkgname-sirit::git+https://github.com/shadps4-emu/sirit.git" "$_pkgname-tracy::git+https://github.com/shadps4-emu/tracy.git" "zydis::git+https://github.com/zyantific/zydis.git" ) ``` which point to this GitHub repository and the submodules required to build shadPS4 from source. So: - No, it is not official; - Yes, it does use the "original source".