Rationale: people break their installs by mixing sudo and non-sudo usage. They are used to having to `sudo port install` and shit like that, so I understand why the mixing happens.
Provided the user installed with our installer anyway. It creates all the directories that Homebrew will need during its life thus negating the need for root writability.
The point being to have less duplicate information.
I am updating the wiki and the homepage accordingly.
I am loathe to leave the "what packages are available" lines but I believe
people who are interested in such things are likely to end up at the source
root so it is appropriate.
This is needed for Ruby 1.9.x compatibility, but we still don't support
running Homebrew with anything other than a system provided 1.8.[67].
FixesHomebrew/homebrew#6546
Signed-off-by: Adam Vandenberg <flangy@gmail.com>
All Apache Formulae should be updated to use the closer.vgi script
to specify downloads rather than a random mirror that could be out
of date or compromised. Apache's closer.cgi does periodic health
checks.
The base URL for the mirror system is
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=#{filepath}
e.g.:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/couchdb/1.0.3/apache-couchdb-1.0.3.tar.gz
Note: The addition of the "Actually downloading..." message is sub-optimal
as the message should probably be emitted in _fetch() rather than fetch(),
but I didn't want to change the way Homebrew works today, so I'm leaving
this for mxcl & team to sort out or adopt :)
Currently, `brew doctor` complains about GREP_OPTIONS being set,
regardless of its value. The cmake formula, for which this check was
introduced, is more specific about what actually makes it fail.
GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto' will not cause the build to fail, so don't
warn about this.
Signed-off-by: Adam Vandenberg <flangy@gmail.com>
XCode 4.x only includes GCC 4.2. Therefore, having `brew doctor` report that
GCC 4.0 is missing only spreads fear, uncertainty and doubt over a situation
that is status quo.
Signed-off-by: Adam Vandenberg <flangy@gmail.com>
FixesHomebrew/homebrew#6065.
My pre-emptive fix that avoided calling Pathname.ensure_writable because I was not convinced it worked broke this function due to incorrect logic.
The lesson is, don’t write pre-emptive fixes. Wait until you've seen the bug first. All code has bugs in, so write less. I'm an idiot sometimes.
Also clean-up this external command in preparation
for becoming a built-in command.
Make which_versions available in Homebrew module so
that it can be used by other commands in the future.
