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Ignore them. Send a pull request with the full source of Arch Linux.

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Nah, just a giant compiled binary blob. That’s what all the cool hackers do these days.

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I’ll try a supply chain attack! That’s a good trick!

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dumb question maybe, but where is the full source of arch Linux? My understanding is that its just vanilla Linux that uses the pacman package manager.

Am I wrong in saying the pacman is the Arch source? Or is there more going on in the tar ball?

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Cheers! It looks like this is then the PKGBUILD

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/base/-/blob/main/PKGBUILD?ref_type=heads

In which case, there are no packages defined there which are Arch specific except pacman. So… pacman is the Arch source, right?

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is archived

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There is even a sentence in README.md that makes it explicit:

The source files in this repo are for historical reference and will be kept static, so please don’t send Pull Requests suggesting any modifications to the source files […]

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Somebody fork it then?

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Time to fork!

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