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README

Demonstrate how to create a brew package.

TODO:

  • Build a homebrew package.
  • Show some examples of updating and outdated
  • Do a linuxbrew and homebrew example.

Questions:

  • Local packages/taps?

How it works

  • To create an official formula you'll need to create a PR on the brew repository here
  • Taps are third party packages Taps
  • Formulas are the scripts that install the software Formula Cookbook

Directories

# installation directory
ls /usr/local/Homebrew

# list formulas installed
ls /usr/local/Cellar

# casks are macnative apps
ls /usr/local/Caskroom

# view the download cache
ls -la $(brew --cache)

# view softlinks to installed packages
ls -la /usr/local/bin

# show the prefix
echo $(brew --prefix)

Basic commands

# useful for debugging.
brew config   

# list the files in a package
brew list coreutils  
# list installed packages 
brew list 

# list only installed casks
brew list --cask

# list packages installed from taps
brew tap 
brew tap-info --installed   
# switching in and out of developer mode
brew developer off
brew developer on 
# open the location of the formulas for homebrew/core
brew --repo homebrew/core        
code $(brew --repo homebrew/core)

Install example

# !!! probably soft link instead of copy 
cp ./git-activity.rb $(brew --repo homebrew/core)/Formula/git-activity.rb    

# once copied into the main repo we have a formula to get info on
brew info git-activity       

# we can audit it (downloads and installs some tooling) 
brew audit --new git-activity

# NOTE: this will print out the hash it you change the release bin
brew install --build-from-source --verbose --debug git-activity

ls -la $(brew --cellar git-activity)/0.0.1/bin/git-activity

# test install
gitactivity --path=$(git root)        

brew reinstall --build-from-source --verbose --debug git-activity

# cleanup
brew remove git-activity

Creation

export HOMEBREW_EDITOR=code
brew create --set-name git-activity https://github.com/chrisguest75/shell_examples/releases/download/0.0.1-f43376d/git-activity-release.tar.gz

Resources

  • Creating homebrew package blog here
  • Brew API here
  • Formula cookbook here
  • Maintaining Taps here
  • Ruby asseertions here