sudo on 10.5 has no -E option

[mfrasca]

possibly related to #954, I am trying to install Caskroom/cask/xquartz on a machine running MacOSX 10.5. it fails as described at mistydemeo/tigerbrew#329.

in particular:

==> sudo: illegal option `-E'

[vitorgalvao]

PRs are welcome, but I doubt any of the core maintainers will want to fix this. I don’t even think we should support anything under 10.6.

[mfrasca]

is there anything one can do, either me myself or the tigerbrew people?
I mean, other than telling the owner of the 10.5 machine to buy a new apple license?

[vitorgalvao]

is there anything one can do, either me myself or the tigerbrew people?

Submit said PR.

other than telling the owner of the 10.5 machine to buy a new apple license?

It can still be installed manually; not supporting it in homebrew-cask doesn’t suddenly make it impossible to install.

I sincerely doubt any time investment from the core maintainers into adding this would be worth it. Like I said, I believe we shouldn’t even be supporting as much stuff as we are now. There’s a reason I’ve tagged the issue seriously instead of closing it, though: perhaps I’m wrong an someone will want to take on the task.

[mfrasca]

I am not a mac user, and I'm used to debian/ubuntu. if I install a package manually, what will happen with the dependecies? Caskroom/cask/xquartz was required in order to install pygtk.

[vitorgalvao]

Not sure, but I’ll ping @ndr-qef since he did the work on the depends_on code.

[mfrasca]

I was considering it again: the dependency to Caskroom/cask/xquartz is not solved within tigerbrew, so I suppose if I install it otherwise, tigerbrew will find it and it might declare itself satisfied.

but I am not going to check:
the owner of the 10.5 machine gave feedback which boils down to "never mind".

[vitorgalvao]

Alright, let’s close this, then.

[tapeinosyne]

if I install a package manually, what will happen with the dependecies?

Currently, homebrew-cask must control its dependencies, and cannot use independent installations. If you install XQuartz manually, brew cask install will ignore it, and fail at the dependencies step.

As for the underlying sudo issues, I am not sure whether the E flag is useful beyond #954: brew cask itself is configured via ENV, but we currently offer no options for sudo-requiring packages.

[mfrasca]

I could remove the -E option by hand, and see what follows.
will post here if I have any results.