Notes in case I want to create my own homebrew cask for installing software they disabled/removed
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/16
Some notes as it might enable me to install software that homebrew has deprecated or removed (note that local changes by default are ignored as the brew API takces precedence):
- [Wayback/Archive] Alert API users that edited formulae won’t be included automatically in commands · Issue #15073 · Homebrew/brew
- [Wayback/Archive] What are the precise step-by-step instructions for creating a cask in the Homebrew repo? · Homebrew · Discussion #4640 · GitHub
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – Homebrew/homebrew-cask: 🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
- [Wayback/Archive] Adding Software to Homebrew — Homebrew Documentation
- [Wayback/Archive] Taps (Third-Party Repositories) — Homebrew Documentation
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brew tap <user>/<repo>makes a clone of the repository athttps://github.com/<user>/homebrew-<repo>into$(brew --repository)/Library/Taps. After that,brewwill be able to work with those formulae as if they were in Homebrew’s homebrew/core canonical repository.…
- [Wayback/Archive] How to Create and Maintain a Tap — Homebrew Documentation
- [Wayback/Archive] Interesting Taps and Forks — Homebrew Documentation
Despite the homebrew repository being a high commit-volume one which makes following it from a clone hard, just did already clone it into [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – jpluimers/homebrew-cask: (for fiddling with disabled apps that I still need) 🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries.
Some statistics:
- [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – Homebrew/homebrew-cask: 🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries 300-thousand commits at the time of writing
- [Wayback/Archive] Commit Activity · Homebrew/homebrew-cask · GitHub ~1500 commits per week
- [Wayback/Archive] Actions Usage Metrics 8000+ CI runs per month (data only viewable for GitHub users that are signed in)
- [Wayback/Archive] Actions Performance Metrics 8500+ CI runs per month (data only viewable for GitHub users that are signed in)
Related blog posts:
- Install an old version with homebrew for macOS · GitHub (which shows how to find the corresponding Ruby files)
- 3 Ways to Convert Kindle to PDF for Free (which needed an older Kindle for MacOS version)
Queries (Google Search heavily throttles archival in the Wayback Machine and to a lesser extent Archive.is: imposed 1 minute wait times, “unusual traffic errors”, and in total some 15k search per day in the Wayback Machine for total world wide archival usage); I might switch to a different search provider soon as [Wayback/Archive] how to add your own homebrew cask github repository at DuckDuckGo isn’t far from the Google Search results not much slower):
- [Wayback/Archive] how to add your own homebrew cask github repository – Google-søk
- [WaybackSave/Archive] homebrew taps – Google Search
--jeroen
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