From fdc1068071633d0a2bab6974c0e81251154f0fcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Issy Long Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 14:26:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs/Maintainer-Guidelines: Document `brew mirror` - I vaguely remembered that ImageMagick was a download we mirrored on BinTray and that doing so required some manual effort post-merge. I went looking for some docs to confirm that memory, but didn't find any. --- docs/Maintainer-Guidelines.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/Maintainer-Guidelines.md b/docs/Maintainer-Guidelines.md index b6f085d8a5..cb27cf3d0e 100644 --- a/docs/Maintainer-Guidelines.md +++ b/docs/Maintainer-Guidelines.md @@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ forever. Nobody really checks if they are necessary or not. Use the Depend on as little stuff as possible. Disable X11 functionality if possible. For example, we build Wireshark, but not the heavy GUI. +For [some formulae](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/search?q=%22homebrew%2Fmirror%22&unscoped_q=%22homebrew%2Fmirror%22), +we mirror the tarballs to our own BinTray. To do this, run +`brew mirror ` with a local checkout of a PR before it is merged. + Homebrew is about Unix software. Stuff that builds to an `.app` should be in Homebrew Cask instead.