Commands stopped working since brew update today

[mltucker]

Hi,

I ran 'brew update' today, and several commands (e.g. 'brew search') stopped working. The error was in /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb. Several errors like this were printed:

Error: /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:18: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting tASSOC
    :bzr,     BazaarDownloadStrategy,

I checked it out and the hash was using ',' instead of '=>'. Here's a 'diff -u' patch that fixed it for me:

--- formula.old.rb  2010-08-16 14:14:14.000000000 -0500
+++ formula.rb  2010-08-16 14:14:07.000000000 -0500
@@ -15,14 +15,14 @@
   attr_reader :url, :specs, :using
 
   VCS_SYMBOLS = {
-    :bzr,     BazaarDownloadStrategy,
-    :curl,    CurlDownloadStrategy,
-    :cvs,     CVSDownloadStrategy,
-    :git,     GitDownloadStrategy,
-    :hg,      MercurialDownloadStrategy,
-    :nounzip, NoUnzipCurlDownloadStrategy,
-    :post,    CurlPostDownloadStrategy,
-    :svn,     SubversionDownloadStrategy,
+    :bzr     => BazaarDownloadStrategy,
+    :curl    => CurlDownloadStrategy,
+    :cvs     => CVSDownloadStrategy,
+    :git     => GitDownloadStrategy,
+    :hg      => MercurialDownloadStrategy,
+    :nounzip => NoUnzipCurlDownloadStrategy,
+    :post    => CurlPostDownloadStrategy,
+    :svn     => SubversionDownloadStrategy,
   }
 
   def initialize url, specs=nil

Thank you!

-Mark

[adamv]

Can you post your "brew --config"?

[mltucker]

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 0.7
HEAD: 75f7c23
HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_CELLAR: /usr/local/Cellar
HOMEBREW_CACHE: /Users/m/Library/Caches/Homebrew
HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY: /usr/local
HOMEBREW_LIBRARY_PATH: /usr/local/Library/Homebrew
Hardware: dual-core 64-bit penryn
OS X: 10.6.4
Kernel Architecture: i386
Ruby: 1.9.2--1
GCC-4.0: build 5493 (5493 or newer recommended)
GCC-4.2: build 5659 (5659 or newer recommended)
LLVM: build 2207 (2207 or newer recommended)
MacPorts or Fink? false
X11 installed? true

[adamv]

I guess this is a syntax change that 1.9.x doesn't support? For what its worth, Homebrew doesn't recommend swapping out the /usr/bin/ruby symlink to other versions of Ruby, but I'll pull this fix when I get a chance.

[mltucker]

Ah, that makes sense. Yeah, I installed the new ruby for the rails 3.0 release candidate without thinking about homebrew. Thanks, adamv.

[adamv]

Use 1.9 compat syntax. Closed by 36e4811