For reasons pertaining to storage and git, installing homebrew comes with the issue of:
Error:
homebrew-core is a shallow clone.
homebrew-cask is a shallow clone.
To `brew update`, first run:
git -C /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core fetch --unshallow
git -C /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask fetch --unshallow
These commands may take a few minutes to run due to the large size of the repositories.
This restriction has been made on GitHub's request because updating shallow
clones is an extremely expensive operation due to the tree layout and traffic of
Homebrew/homebrew-core and Homebrew/homebrew-cask. We don't do this for you
automatically to avoid repeatedly performing an expensive unshallow operation in
CI systems (which should instead be fixed to not use shallow clones). Sorry for
the inconvenience!
It explicitly states what to do next, but I've found that running those git commands is a pretty terrible experience with slow internet (or just in general). The absolute best solution to such an issue would be if there were torrents which contained the entire project folder including git. Barring that, a simple download would be nice. Really, anything but git is in scope of this question.
To reiterate the issues with using git:
requires git
opaque UX by default (tends to hang without any updates for long periods of time)
not great for slow connections
wrong tool for a situation that only involves downloading files
Is there an alternative path to Homebrew that doesn't incorporate git?
As said in the comments, you can use the skip tap cloning feature of Homebrew. Note that this is, for now, a beta feature:
Skip Tap Cloning (beta)
You can instruct Homebrew to skip cloning the
Homebrew/homebrew-core tap during installation by setting the beta
HOMEBREW_INSTALL_FROM_API environment variable with the following:
export HOMEBREW_INSTALL_FROM_API=1
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
This will make Homebrew install formulae and casks from the
homebrew/core and homebrew/cask taps using Homebrew’s API instead of
local checkouts of these repositories.
I agree with OP 100%.
Homebrew should simply provide a downloadable file. Especially since GitHub has implemented a very unfriendly interface and the default shell in MacOS Ventura is now zsh which Homebrew specifically states will not work with their provided Terminal install command.
If you make it so difficult to install your software, then don't be surprised that fewer people use it.
Edit: I suppose they just don't really care, but I spent a few hours trying to get Homebrew up to date tonight because of GitHub.
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Hi I have a problem that for some reason I get blocked form a private corporate repo from installing dependencies, it seems that due to the large amount of requests I generate when running bower install I get blocked... this is a known issue, and fixing it could take a couple of days.
I wonder if there is a way to stop - pause and ask for user to touch a key to continue the installation?
this way I would be able to overcome this problem that is out my scope fixing and I need to install the component to work. any hint?
I get this message
ECMDERR Failed to execute "git ls-remote --tags --heads
git#github.company.com:components/something.git", exit code of #128 client_loop:
send disconnect: Connection reset by peer fatal: Could not read from remote
repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the
repository exists.
The repo exists and I do have access rights.
I have confirmed the cause of this issue is that private repo is wrongly cutting my connection due to the large amounts of requests, this triggers a brute force attack protection... the solution could take days to be completed in large company with processes that need to be initilizied with the corresponding teams.
A very tedious workaround is to install manually each package or to cut the bower.json package in parts and run them in separate batches.
Tile says it all. Trying to install old version of ghostscript on a new mac.
brew extract --version=9.25 ghostscript <tap>
what should tap be? Or better how can one figure this out, teach me to fish.
According to the official Homebrew terminology, a tap is:
A Git repository of Formulae and/or commands
They are located under:
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/
for Intel Mac, and under
/opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/
for M1 Mac.
You can create a local tap with:
brew tap-new user/repo
This will create a local git repository under /opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/user/repo/(for M1).
If you want to know more about tap, read the man page (man brew), read the documentation, and if you want to know even more read the source code.
Can not get NGINX to install with passenger
Following the steps you are supposed to...
brew install passenger
Then you run the following command...
brew install nginx --with-passenger
But I get:
Error: invalid option: --with-passenger
Could not find any resources about this online, so asking here.
$ brew install nginx --with-passenger
Usage: brew install [options] formula
Install formula.
formula is usually the name of the formula to install, but it can be specified
in several different ways.
-d, --debug If brewing fails, open an interactive
debugging session with access to IRB or a
shell inside the temporary build directory
--env If std is passed, use the standard build
environment instead of superenv.If super
is passed, use superenv even if the formula
specifies the standard build environment.
--ignore-dependencies Skip installing any dependencies of any
kind. If they are not already present, the
formula will probably fail to install.
--only-dependencies Install the dependencies with specified
options but do not install the specified
formula.
--cc Attempt to compile using provided
compiler. compiler should be the name
of the compiler's executable, for instance
gcc-7 for GCC 7. In order to use LLVM's
clang, use llvm_clang. To specify the
Apple-provided clang, use clang. This
parameter will only accept compilers that
are provided by Homebrew or bundled with
macOS. Please do not file issues if you
encounter errors while using this flag.
-s, --build-from-source Compile the specified formula from source
even if a bottle is provided. Dependencies
will still be installed from bottles if
they are available.
--force-bottle Install from a bottle if it exists for the
current or newest version of macOS, even if
it would not normally be used for
installation.
--include-test Install testing dependencies required to
run brew test.
--devel If formula defines it, install the
development version.
--HEAD If formula defines it, install the HEAD
version, aka. master, trunk, unstable.
--fetch-HEAD Fetch the upstream repository to detect if
the HEAD installation of the formula is
outdated. Otherwise, the repository's HEAD
will be checked for updates when a new
stable or development version has been
released.
--keep-tmp Don't delete the temporary files created
during installation.
--build-bottle Prepare the formula for eventual bottling
during installation.
-f, --force Install without checking for previously
installed keg-only or non-migrated
versions.
-v, --verbose Print the verification and postinstall
steps.
--display-times Print install times for each formula at the
end of the run.
-i, --interactive Download and patch formula, then open a
shell. This allows the user to run
./configure --help and otherwise
determine how to turn the software package
into a Homebrew package.
-g, --git Create a Git repository, useful for
creating patches to the software.
-h, --help Show this message.
Error: invalid option: --with-passenger
This is supposed to work... so yeah.
A late answer. Obviously the documentation on the passenger site is outdated at time of this writing.
According to phusion's github site
https://github.com/phusion/passenger/issues/2187#issue-416881033
the config option --nginx-with-passenger is not valid anymore.
Instead do:
brew install nginx passenger
Addendum:
When using google search for results currently the old page comes up at the top of the list. Here's the currently maintained page with the accurate information:
https://www.phusionpassenger.com/docs/advanced_guides/install_and_upgrade/nginx/install/oss/osx.html
I'd like to modify the dtc formula to build a specialized version of dtc used with the Beaglebone Black (and other device-tree ARM boards). The problem is multi-fold. The dtc formula provides bottled versions, and installed 1.4.0. I want to install a version that comes from newer sources, but not the absolute latest, and applies a patch available elsewhere. I can build this manually on OS X, but I don't know the best way to make it available in homebrew.
I'd like to make it a variant. Either an entirely separate formula, or something within the current formula that can be selected with a command-line parameter. But I'm not well-versed enough in brew to know how best to do this.
I tried creating new formula called "dtc-dyn" but it doesn't like dashes in the name.
I'd also like to make it a bottle, for others' convenience, but that seems more complicated.
I tried just modifying the current dtc and removing all the bottle stuff, then modifying the URL, version, and adding system steps. But some of the operations fail (that seem to work when run from the original build script):
def install
git_sha = "f6dbc6ca9618391e4f30c415a0a09b7af35f7647"
system "git checkout master -f"
system "git pull"
system "git checkout #{git_sha} -b #{git_sha}-build"
system "git pull --no-edit https://github.com/pantoniou/dtc dt-overlays5"
system "make clean"
system "make all"
end
Sadly, this doesn't work:
$ brew install dtc
==> Cloning git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git
Updating /Library/Caches/Homebrew/dtc--git
==> Checking out branch master
==> git checkout master -f
==> git pull
==> git checkout f6dbc6ca9618391e4f30c415a0a09b7af35f7647 -b f6dbc6ca9618391e4f30c415a0a09b7af35f7647-build
2015-09-21 00:22:37 -0700
git checkout f6dbc6ca9618391e4f30c415a0a09b7af35f7647 -b f6dbc6ca9618391e4f30c415a0a09b7af35f7647-build
fatal: reference is not a tree: f6dbc6ca9618391e4f30c415a0a09b7af35f7647
READ THIS: https://git.io/brew-troubleshooting
The original script can be found here.
Anyway, what's the best way to approach this? I think some kind of with-option, based on some of the example scripts, but I'm not sure how to avoid the bottle business. Thanks!
Second Approach
Okay, after more doc reading and experimenting, I'm trying this:
class Dtc < Formula
desc "Device tree compiler"
homepage "http://www.devicetree.org/"
url "https://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/d/device-tree-compiler/device-tree-compiler_1.4.0+dfsg.orig.tar.gz"
mirror "https://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian/pool/main/d/device-tree-compiler/device-tree-compiler_1.4.0+dfsg.orig.tar.gz"
sha256 "f5f9a1aea478ee6dbcece8907fd4551058fe72fc2c2a7be972e3d0b7eec4fa43"
version "1.4.0"
option "with-symbols", "Add symbols/fixup support (-# option)."
bottle…
if build.with? "symbols"
url "http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git", :revision => "f6dbc6ca9618391e4f30c415a0a09b7af35f7647"
system "git", "pull", "--no-edit", "https://github.com/pantoniou/dtc", "dt-overlays5"
end
def install
system "make"
system "make", "DESTDIR=#{prefix}", "PREFIX=", "install"
mv lib/"libfdt.dylib.1", lib/"libfdt.1.dylib"
end
end
Unfortunately, the git pull fails because it does that before cloning the git repo, and it's not in the right directory. I first considered patch do…, but it wasn't clear how to apply the patch via git pull. I tried this:
if build.with? "symbols"
url "http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dtc/dtc.git", :revision => "f6dbc6ca9618391e4f30c415a0a09b7af35f7647"
patch do
system "git", "pull", "--no-edit", "https://github.com/pantoniou/dtc", "dt-overlays5"
end
end
But it still tries to do the git pull before cloning the repo and cding to it.
I want to use apt to install some packages for the test, however, it fails due to that the sudo is disabled. I found the following in the test output:
Sudo, the FireFox addon, setuid and setgid have been disabled.
It seems that the output comes from this line in travic-ci, but setting paranoid_mode to false in .travis.yml does not work.
How to enable sudo access?
PS: I am using private repo.
EDIT: The following .travis.yml will fail due to sudo: must be setuid root when running sudo apt-get update -qq
language: python
python:
- "3.4"
before_install:
- sudo apt-get update -qq
script:
- nosetests
Setting sudo: true and/or paranoid_mode: false does not work.
Sudo access is turned off on our Docker based architecture, which will be used in two contexts:
repositories opt in using sudo: false in their .travis.yml file (it additionally needs to be turned on on our side)
on our educational program (see http://education.travis-ci.com)
Builds running on our Docker based architecture currently cannot be allowed sudo access due to certain security concerns in the LXC/Docker layer. We hope this will be fixed in the near future, but unfortunately the issue is out of our own hands.
We are also working on improving the Firefox addon, which currently uses sudo itself, but shouldn't. We'll post on our blog once this has happened.
To extend the existing answer, if you put in .travis.yml:
sudo: required
Travis should switch your build to use their "standard infrastructure" (rather than their "container based infrastructure") and then you can use sudo.
References:
https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/workers/standard-infrastructure
https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/workers/container-based-infrastructure/
Nov 2018 Update
It seems that container-based infrastructure is getting deprecated. From the docs:
Container-based infrastructure is currently being deprecated. Please
use the fully-virtualized infrastrstructure via sudo: required
instead.
As explained in "Combining The Linux Infrastructures"
Going forward, we will slowly transition the container-based environment out, in favor of a build environment that is entirely virtual machine-based.
Folks using container-based infrastructures will be the only ones affected, and this transition will roll out slowly, depending on whether you specify sudo: false in your .travis.yml.
This is illustrated in Git 2.20 (Q4 2018), with:
Travis CI will soon deprecate the container-based infrastructure enabled by sudo: false in ce59dff (Git 2.8.0, Jan. 2016).
See commit 0f0c511 (01 Nov 2018) by SZEDER Gábor (szeder).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 57f06d5, 13 Nov 2018)
travis-ci: install packages in 'ci/install-dependencies.sh'
Ever since we started using Travis CI, we specified the list of packages to install in '.travis.yml' via the APT addon.
While running our builds on Travis CI's container-based infrastructure we didn't have another choice, because that environment didn't support 'sudo', and thus we didn't have permission to install packages ourselves.
With the switch to the VM-based infrastructure in the previous patch we do get a working 'sudo', so we can install packages by running 'sudo apt-get -y install ...' as well.
Let's make use of this and install necessary packages in 'ci/install-dependencies.sh', so all the dependencies (i.e. both packages and "non-packages" (P4 and Git-LFS)) are handled in the same file.
Install gcc-8 only in the 'linux-gcc' build job; so far it has been unnecessarily installed in the 'linux-clang' build job as well.
Print the versions of P4 and Git-LFS conditionally, i.e. only when they have been installed; with this change even the static analysis and documentation build jobs start using 'ci/install-dependencies.sh'
to install packages, and neither of these two build jobs depend on and
thus install those.
This change will presumably be beneficial for the upcoming Azure Pipelines integration preliminary versions of that patch series run a couple of 'apt-get' commands to install the necessary packages before running 'ci/install-dependencies.sh', but with this patch it will be sufficient to run only 'ci/install-dependencies.sh'.