This cookbook installs Homebrew and provides resources for working with taps and casks
- macOS
- Chef 12.1+
- none
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node['homebrew']['owner']
- The user that will own the Homebrew installation and packages. Setting this will override the default behavior which is to use the non-privileged user that has invoked the Chef run (or theSUDO_USER
if invoked with sudo). The default isnil
. -
node['homebrew']['auto-update']
- Whether the default recipe should automatically update Homebrew each run or not. The default istrue
to maintain compatibility. Set to false or nil to disable. Note that disabling this feature may cause formula to not work. -
node['homebrew']['formulas']
- An Array of formula that should be installed using Homebrew by default, used only in thehomebrew::install_formulas
recipe.-
To install the most recent version, include just the recipe name:
- simple_formula
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To install a specific version, specify both its name and version:
- name: special-version-formula version: 1.2.3
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To install the HEAD of a formula, specify both its name and
head: true
:- name: head-tracking-formula head: true
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To provide other options, specify both its name and options
- name: formula-with-options options: --with-option-1 --with-other-option
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node['homebrew']['casks']
- An Array of casks that should be installed using brew cask by default, used only in thehomebrew::install_casks
recipe. -
node['homebrew']['taps']
- An Array of taps that should be installed using brew tap by default, used only in thehomebrew::install_taps
recipe.
LWRP for brew tap
, a Homebrew command used to add additional formula repositories. From the brew
man page:
tap [tap]
Tap a new formula repository from GitHub, or list existing taps.
tap is of the form user/repo, e.g. brew tap homebrew/dupes.
Default action is :tap
which enables the repository. Use :untap
to disable a tapped repository.
homebrew_tap 'homebrew/dupes'
homebrew_tap 'homebrew/dupes' do
action :untap
end
LWRP for brew cask
, a Homebrew-style CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries. It's implemented as a homebrew "external command" called cask.
You must have the homebrew-cask repository tapped.
homebrew_tap 'caskroom/cask'
And then install the homebrew cask package before using this LWRP.
package "brew-cask" do
action :install
end
You can include the homebrew::cask
recipe to do this.
homebrew_cask "google-chrome"
homebrew_cask "google-chrome" do
action :uncask
end
Default action is :cask
which installs the Application binary . Use :uncask
to uninstall a an Application.
View the list of available Casks
We strongly recommend that you put "recipe[homebrew]" in your node's run list, to ensure that it is available on the system and that Homebrew itself gets installed. Putting an explicit dependency in the metadata will cause the cookbook to be downloaded and the library loaded, thus resulting in changing the package provider on Mac OS X, so if you have systems you want to use the default (Mac Ports), they would be changed to Homebrew.
The default recipe also ensures that Homebrew is installed and up to date if the auto update attribute (above) is true (default).
This cookbook is maintained by CHEF. The original author, maintainer and copyright holder is Graeme Mathieson. The cookbook remains licensed under the Apache License version 2.
Author:: Graeme Mathieson (mathie@woss.name)
Author:: Joshua Timberman (joshua@chef.io)
Copyright:: 2011, Graeme Mathieson
Copyright:: 2012-2016, Chef Software, Inc. <legal@chef.io>
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