Most PKGBUILDS are stupidly simple, they're probably easier to read than a set of tool calls. See this for a randomly picked recently updated example:
replyhttps://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=batte...
(honestly I think the way that arch packages work is really nice compared to most other distros: you can almost copy and paste the README of a project into one and have a package)
Here's the most complicated one I found, building a browser:
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=flowf...
The main risk, if you're reading them, is typosquatting and hiding the malicious code in what the project downloads.
Arch is famously x64 only?
replyI run it on my milk-v duo s risk sbc. The risk-v version is maintained by a few dedicated people, and the milk-v specifics I had to fix myself. But it works :)
replyI knew there's an unofficial version for ARM. I meant more that the vast majority of AUR packages target x64 only because that's what 'official' Arch supports.
replyThat being said, didn't know there's a RISC V effort as well now, so TIL.
> The deterministic script is probably overly complex and hard to read, maybe supports ten billion platform combinations.
replyUh sorry what? Can you point to a PKGBUILD that is indeed this complex?