brew install gettext, triggers brew cleanup (30 days), as a result gettext is removed

[joachimmetz]

brew install gettext, triggers brew cleanup (30 days), as a result gettext is removed.

• ran brew update and can still reproduce the problem?
  • brew update is run before brew install gettext gnu-sed
• ran brew doctor, fixed all issues and can still reproduce the problem?
  • I did not run brew doctor since instance is short lived
• ran brew config and brew doctor and included their output with your issue?
  • I did not run brew config and brew doctor since instance is short lived

Not an urgent issue, I'll run export HOMEBREW_NO_INSTALL_CLEANUP=1; before using brew install for now.

What you were trying to do (and why)

I ran into this issue on Travis-CI MacOS instance

brew install gettext gnu-sed
...
Error: gettext 0.19.8.1 is already installed
To upgrade to 0.20.1, run `brew upgrade gettext`
...
==> `brew cleanup` has not been run in 30 days, running now...
...
Removing: /Users/travis/Library/Caches/Homebrew/gettext-0.19.8.1.sierra.bottle.tar.gz... (7.8MB)

What happened (include command output)

https://travis-ci.com/github/libyal/libmodi/jobs/319194232#L7764

What you expected to happen

Gettext not to be removed by brew cleanup

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

See: What you were trying to do (and why)

Output of brew config and brew doctor commands

N/A

[scpeters]

The following line in the console output:

Removing: /Users/travis/Library/Caches/Homebrew/gettext-0.19.8.1.sierra.bottle.tar.gz... (7.8MB)

is not saying that the package was uninstalled; rather it says that the cached bottle tarball is being removed as it is out of date. When you brew upgrade gettext, it will download version 0.20.1; there's no reason to keep the old 0.19.8.1 bottle.

Is there a way we could improve this console message to clarify what is happening?

[MikeMcQuaid]

Is there a way we could improve this console message to clarify what is happening?

I'm open to PRs doing that!

[joachimmetz]

@scpeters thx for the clarification, I don't use brew that much. So terms like bottle and their paths are not familiar.

Maybe change the output to something like:

[INFO] purging obsolete cache file: ...

[MikeMcQuaid]

Looks like a potential duplicate of #7320