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@ -3,11 +3,15 @@ Homebrew
A simple package management system for OS X Leopard. Packages are brewed in
individual, versioned kegs. For example:
/Brewery/Cellar/wget/1.14/bin/wget
/Brewery/Cellar/wget/1.11.4/bin/wget
/Brewery/Cellar/wget/1.11.4/share/man/man1/wget.1
…
Then symlinks are created to create a normal POSIX tree:
And symlinks are created to allow a normal POSIX tree:
/Brewery/bin/wget -> /Brewery/Cellar/wget/1.14/bin/wget
/Brewery/bin/wget -> /Brewery/Cellar/wget/1.11.4/bin/wget
/Brewery/etc/wgetrc -> /Brewery/Cellar/wget/1.11.4/etc/wgetrc
…
This way the filesystem is the package database. Everything else is now easy.
We are made of win.
@ -42,7 +46,7 @@ Install wget:
ruby /Brewery/Formula/wget.rb
Update recipes list:
cd /Brewery && git pull origin master
cd /Brewery && git pull origin masterbrew
Delete a package:
rm -rf /Brewery/Cellar/wget && brew prune
@ -74,7 +78,12 @@ quickly read the source and modify it and then push the patch to github if
anything you need is missing or something is not working. This is real open
source.
NOTE you have to install git before you can update the package list. *shrug*
NOTE you have to install git before you can update the package list, but
that's easy:
brew install git
or
ruby /Brewery/Formula/git.rb
Why Not MacPorts?
@ -82,6 +91,7 @@ Why Not MacPorts?
1. MacPorts installs its own libz, its own openssl, etc. It's an autarky.
This makes no sense to me. OS X comes with all that shit.
2. MacPorts support Tiger, and PPC. We don't, so things are better optimised.
3. cmake has like 100 dependencies in MacPorts, with Homebrew it has one
Homebrew Will Never Build:
@ -91,6 +101,9 @@ Homebrew Will Never Build:
3. Anything that needs to install outside of the Homebrew tree
4. Stuff OS X already does, eg. rubygems (duplication sucks)
I say never, but if you really want these things you can fork the tree and
do it yourself. It's just my tree will never build those things.
Why Compile From Source?
========================
@ -107,7 +120,7 @@ previous maintainer has vanished. You have to do it. Don't worry, unlike every
other packaging system ever, it's easy with Homebrew:
1. Edit the relevant ruby file in /Brewery/Formula
2. Fork Homebrew on github (or generate a patch)
2. Fork Homebrew on github (or git diff > patch)
3. Send mxcl a pull request
Congratulations, you have contributed to an open source project!