`brew upgrade --cask <outdated_formula>` throws the error "No Cask with this name exists."

[slebedev]

brew doctor output

Your system is ready to brew.

Verification

• My "brew doctor output" above says Your system is ready to brew. and am still able to reproduce my issue.
• I ran brew update twice and am still able to reproduce my issue.
• This issue's title and/or description do not reference a single formula e.g. brew install wget. If they do, open an issue at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/new/choose instead.

brew config output

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 3.6.20-171-g4ded574
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: 4ded574330899f1eed7605bd344a619fc6b348db
Last commit: 6 hours ago
Core tap ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
Core tap HEAD: 9d2fca0f48c1a7966a141aad47456dfb92bc934c
Core tap last commit: 9 days ago
Core tap branch: master
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /opt/homebrew
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_INSTALL_FROM_API: set
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 10
Homebrew Ruby: 2.6.10 => /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/bin/ruby
CPU: 10-core 64-bit arm_firestorm_icestorm
Clang: 14.0.0 build 1400
Git: 2.39.1 => /opt/homebrew/bin/git
Curl: 7.86.0 => /usr/bin/curl
macOS: 13.2-arm64
CLT: N/A
Xcode: 14.2
Rosetta 2: false

What were you trying to do (and why)?

After running brew update and getting new casks outdated by brew outdated --cask --greedy output, I've decided to update any of casks listed.

What happened (include all command output)?

==> Upgrading 1 outdated package:
Error: Cask 'fsnotes' is unavailable: No Cask with this name exists.

What did you expect to happen?

Successful upgrade of outdated cask.

Step-by-step reproduction instructions (by running brew commands)

$ brew update && brew outdated && brew outdated --cask --greedy
==> Updated Homebrew from 7a5f6143d to 4ded57433.
Updated 1 tap (homebrew/cask-drivers).
==> Outdated Formulae
apr                              apr-util                         libde265
==> Outdated Casks
fsnotes

You have 3 outdated formulae and 1 outdated cask installed.
You can upgrade them with brew upgrade
or list them with brew outdated.
apr (1.7.1) < 1.7.2
apr-util (1.6.2) < 1.6.3
libde265 (1.0.10) < 1.0.11
fsnotes (6.1.2) != 6.1.3
font-ibm-plex-mono (latest) != latest
fsnotes (6.1.2) != 6.1.3
google-chrome (109.0.5414.119) != 110.0.5481.77

$ brew upgrade --cask fsnotes google-chrome
==> Upgrading 2 outdated packages:
Error: Cask 'fsnotes' is unavailable: No Cask with this name exists.

$ brew info --cask fsnotes
==> fsnotes: 6.1.3
https://fsnot.es/
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/6.1.2 (121B)
==> Name
FSNotes
==> Description
Notes manager
==> Artifacts
FSNotes.app (App)
==> Analytics
install: 107 (30 days), 339 (90 days), 1,471 (365 days)

$ brew upgrade --cask fsnotes
==> Upgrading 1 outdated package:
Error: Cask 'fsnotes' is unavailable: No Cask with this name exists.

[slebedev]

Upgrade by ommitting any of formulas in the command throws this error also:

$ brew upgrade --cask
==> Casks with 'auto_updates true' or 'version :latest' will not be upgraded; pass `--greedy` to upgrade them.
==> Upgrading 1 outdated package:
Error: Cask 'fsnotes' is unavailable: No Cask with this name exists.

Installing of some new cask is successful:

$ brew install --cask dynamist
==> Downloading https://dynalist.io/standalone/download?file=Dynalist.dmg
Warning: No checksum defined for cask 'dynalist', skipping verification.
==> Installing Cask dynalist
==> Moving App 'Dynalist.app' to '/Applications/Dynalist.app'
🍺  dynalist was successfully installed!

[gromgit]

Probably a duplicate of #14463.

[slebedev]

@gromgit Thank you, Adrian! Let me check, I'll close the issue if it's related to that one.

[slebedev]

$ brew readall homebrew/cask
$ # previous command has finished without any error
$ brew upgrade --cask --debug fsnotes
/opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/shims/shared/curl --disable --cookie /dev/null --globoff --show-error --user-agent Homebrew/3.6.20-171-g4ded574\ \(Macintosh\;\ arm64\ Mac\ OS\ X\ 13.2\)\ curl/7.86.0 --header Accept-Language:\ en --max-time 5 --retry 3 --fail https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask-source/fsnotes.rb
/opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/shims/shared/curl --disable --cookie /dev/null --globoff --show-error --user-agent Homebrew/3.6.20-171-g4ded574\ \(Macintosh\;\ arm64\ Mac\ OS\ X\ 13.2\)\ curl/7.86.0 --header Accept-Language:\ en --fail --progress-bar --max-time 5 --retry 3 --location --remote-time --output /Users/drago/Library/Caches/Homebrew/api/cask.json --time-cond /Users/drago/Library/Caches/Homebrew/api/cask.json --compressed --silent https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask.json
==> Upgrading 1 outdated package:
/opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/shims/shared/curl --disable --cookie /dev/null --globoff --show-error --user-agent Homebrew/3.6.20-171-g4ded574\ \(Macintosh\;\ arm64\ Mac\ OS\ X\ 13.2\)\ curl/7.86.0 --header Accept-Language:\ en --max-time 5 --retry 3 --fail https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask-source//opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.2/20230125112421.396/Casks/fsnotes.rb.rb
Error: Cask 'fsnotes' is unavailable: No Cask with this name exists.
/opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cask/cask_loader.rb:342:in `load'
/opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cask/cask_loader.rb:351:in `load'
/opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cask/cmd/upgrade.rb:149:in `block in upgrade_casks'
/opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cask/cmd/upgrade.rb:149:in `map'
/opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cask/cmd/upgrade.rb:149:in `upgrade_casks'
/opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/upgrade.rb:226:in `upgrade_outdated_casks'
/opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/cmd/upgrade.rb:117:in `upgrade'
/opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:105:in `<main>'

The issue looks the same, but I don't understand how formula may be corrupted:

$ cd /opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-cask
/o/h/L/T/h/homebrew-cask $ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/master/Casks/fsnotes.rb > /tmp/fsnotes.rb
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   596  100   596    0     0  16848      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 19866
/o/h/L/T/h/homebrew-cask $ diff /tmp/fsnotes.rb Casks/fsnotes.rb
/o/h/L/T/h/homebrew-cask $ # No difference! Maybe we should look them in binary format?..
/o/h/L/T/h/homebrew-cask $ diff <(xxd /tmp/fsnotes.rb) <(xxd Casks/fsnotes.rb)
/o/h/L/T/h/homebrew-cask $ # No difference also...

[gromgit]

/opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/shims/shared/curl --disable --cookie /dev/null --globoff --show-error --user-agent Homebrew/3.6.20-171-g4ded574\ \(Macintosh\;\ arm64\ Mac\ OS\ X\ 13.2\)\ curl/7.86.0 --header Accept-Language:\ en --max-time 5 --retry 3 --fail https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask-source//opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.2/20230125112421.396/Casks/fsnotes.rb.rb

This is a symptom of the first issue I mentioned in the linked issue above. export HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API=1 to stop this from happening, then run your brew upgrades again.

The issue looks the same, but I don't understand how formula may be corrupted:

Local formula/cask file corruption isn't likely, but that's easy to test with brew readall, so there's no reason to ignore that possibility.

[slebedev]

Local formula/cask file corruption isn't likely, but that's easy to test with brew readall, so there's no reason to ignore that possibility.

Yeah, I did it before running brew upgrade --cask --debug fsnotes, it finished without any error.

And I've tried with HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API=1 also 🙁:

$ brew config
HOMEBREW_VERSION: 3.6.20-171-g4ded574
ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew
HEAD: 4ded574330899f1eed7605bd344a619fc6b348db
Last commit: 10 hours ago
Core tap ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core
Core tap HEAD: 9d2fca0f48c1a7966a141aad47456dfb92bc934c
Core tap last commit: 9 days ago
Core tap branch: master
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /opt/homebrew
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_INSTALL_FROM_API: set
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 10
Homebrew Ruby: 2.6.10 => /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/bin/ruby
CPU: 10-core 64-bit arm_firestorm_icestorm
Clang: 14.0.0 build 1400
Git: 2.39.1 => /opt/homebrew/bin/git
Curl: 7.86.0 => /usr/bin/curl
macOS: 13.2-arm64
CLT: N/A
Xcode: 14.2
Rosetta 2: false
$ brew upgrade --cask
==> Casks with 'auto_updates true' or 'version :latest' will not be upgraded; pass `--greedy` to
==> Upgrading 1 outdated package:
Error: Cask 'fsnotes' is unavailable: No Cask with this name exists.

[slebedev]

For some reason there's no local formula in metadata for fsnotes:

$ find $(brew --caskroom)/fsnotes
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/6.1.2
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/6.1.2/FSNotes.app
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.2
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.2/20230125112421.396
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.2/20230125112421.396/Casks
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/config.json

May it be the issue?

[gromgit]

Then you'll have to do the other half of my recommendation in the linked issue:

rm -fr $(brew --caskroom)/fsnotes
brew reinstall --cask --force fsnotes

[slebedev]

I've restored local metadata for fsnotes==6.1.2 version and then upgrade perfoms successfully.

So the main question is why local formula wasn't there?..

[slebedev]

hm... after successful upgrade fsnotes.rb local formula isn't exist

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/p-linnane/homebrew-cask/cb76bdaa98e8109c6d67b7e864cc320fc64c6baa/Casks/fsnotes.rb > $(brew --caskroom)/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.2/20230125112421.396/Casks/fsnotes.rb
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   596  100   596    0     0   3819      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  3947

$ brew upgrade --cask fsnotes
==> Upgrading 1 outdated package:
fsnotes 6.1.2 -> 6.1.3
==> Upgrading fsnotes
==> Downloading https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes/releases/download/6.1.3/FSNotes_6.1.3.zip
==> Downloading from https://objects.githubusercontent.com/github-production-release-asset-2e65be
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Backing App 'FSNotes.app' up to '/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/6.1.2/FSNotes.app'
==> Removing App '/Applications/FSNotes.app'
==> Moving App 'FSNotes.app' to '/Applications/FSNotes.app'
==> Purging files for version 6.1.2 of Cask fsnotes
🍺  fsnotes was successfully upgraded!

$ find $(brew --caskroom) -iname "fsnotes.rb"
$ # empty result

[slebedev]

$ find $(brew --caskroom)/fsnotes
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/6.1.3
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/6.1.3/FSNotes.app
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.3
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.3/20230202104712.517
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.3/20230202104712.517/Casks
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/config.json

$ rm -rf $(brew --caskroom)/fsnotes

$ brew reinstall --cask --force fsnotes
==> Downloading https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes/releases/download/6.1.3/FSNotes_6.1.3.zip
Already downloaded: /Users/drago/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/fb38a64431c6b3e35ebe81df3528a75337a50245e8d68dfe55bf64635a5cd9d5--FSNotes_6.1.3.zip
==> Installing Cask fsnotes
Warning: It seems there is already an App at '/Applications/FSNotes.app'; overwriting.
==> Removing App '/Applications/FSNotes.app'
==> Moving App 'FSNotes.app' to '/Applications/FSNotes.app'
🍺  fsnotes was successfully installed!

 $ find $(brew --caskroom)/fsnotes
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/6.1.3
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/6.1.3/FSNotes.app
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.3
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.3/20230202111311.489
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.3/20230202111311.489/Casks
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/config.json

[gromgit]

And I've tried with HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API=1 also 🙁

$ brew config
[...]
HOMEBREW_INSTALL_FROM_API: set

Your brew config output says you didn't. That's also the reason why your fsnotes install didn't cache the cask definition file:

$ brew config
[...]
HOMEBREW_INSTALL_FROM_API: set
[...]

$ brew install --cask fsnotes
==> Downloading https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes/releases/download/6.1.3/FSNotes_6.1.3.zip
[...]
🍺  fsnotes was successfully installed!

$ find $(brew --caskroom) -iname fsnotes.rb
# nothing found

$ brew rm --cask fsnotes
==> Uninstalling Cask fsnotes
==> Backing App 'FSNotes.app' up to '/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/6.1.3/FSNotes.app'
==> Removing App '/Applications/FSNotes.app'
==> Purging files for version 6.1.3 of Cask fsnotes

# THIS IS KEY!!!
$ export HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API=1

$ brew config
[...]
# NOTE: different variable set
HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API: set
[...]

$ brew install --cask fsnotes
==> Downloading https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes/releases/download/6.1.2/FSNotes_6.1.2.zip
# Yup, my cask tap doesn't have the latest-n-greatest, that's further confirmation that this is NOT installing from API.
[...]
🍺  fsnotes was successfully installed!

$ find $(brew --caskroom) -iname fsnotes.rb
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.2/20230202111326.197/Casks/fsnotes.rb

[slebedev]

@gromgit thanks a lot for this catch, I didn't notice I've copied wrong variable 🙈

I can confirm it's ok when correct one is set:

$ brew config | grep HOMEBREW_
HOMEBREW_VERSION: 3.6.20-171-g4ded574
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /opt/homebrew
HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: []
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 10
HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_FROM_API: set

$ find $(brew --caskroom)/fsnotes
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/6.1.3
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/6.1.3/FSNotes.app
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.3
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.3/20230202111311.489
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.3/20230202111311.489/Casks
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/config.json

$ rm -rf $(brew --caskroom)/fsnotes

$ brew reinstall --cask --force fsnotes
==> Downloading https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes/releases/download/6.1.3/FSNotes_6.1.3.zip
Already downloaded: /Users/drago/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/fb38a64431c6b3e35ebe81df3528a75337a50245e8d68dfe55bf64635a5cd9d5--FSNotes_6.1.3.zip
==> Installing Cask fsnotes
Warning: It seems there is already an App at '/Applications/FSNotes.app'; overwriting.
==> Removing App '/Applications/FSNotes.app'
==> Moving App 'FSNotes.app' to '/Applications/FSNotes.app'
🍺  fsnotes was successfully installed!
 
$ find $(brew --caskroom)/fsnotes
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/6.1.3
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/6.1.3/FSNotes.app
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.3
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.3/20230202112208.975
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.3/20230202112208.975/Casks
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/6.1.3/20230202112208.975/Casks/fsnotes.rb
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/fsnotes/.metadata/config.json

So should we close the issue as it seems like a duplicated one?..